From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4031 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2011 02:29:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 4023 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Jun 2011 02:29:05 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from comm.purplecow.org (HELO comm.purplecow.org) (210.87.62.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:28:51 +0000 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Received: from interact.purplecow.org ([127.0.0.1]) by comm.purplecow.org (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-6.03 (built Mar 14 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0LM5009OT5K1EB00@comm.purplecow.org> for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:28:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from interact.purplecow.org ([10.0.66.17] helo=interact.purplecow.org) with IPv4:25 by ASSP.nospam; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:28:49 +1000 Received: from 10.0.66.17 (proxying for unknown) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dclarke@blastwave.org) by interact.purplecow.org with HTTP; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:28:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <34251.10.0.66.17.1306981729.squirrel@interact.purplecow.org> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:29:00 -0000 Subject: Re: gcc-4.6.0 breaks From: Dennis Clarke To: Bill Cunningham Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Reply-to: dclarke@blastwave.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.11 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 > Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> My gcc-4.6.0 compilation after compiling for quite some time >>> decided to >>> break with an error to stderr of something like not recognized object >>> files. >>> I am compiling with gcc-3.3.6. This can sure be nerve racking. Does >>> anyone know what this means? >>> >> >> How would anyone even begin to help with this email content ? >> >> Okay, so let's see, so you're running Debian Linux on a DEC alpha and >> you are trying to bootstrap GCC 4.6.0 while using GCC 3.3.6 with >> binutils maybe maybe not and your configure line was black magic >> while facing east with a dead cat under a rising moon ? >> >> My guess is that you need to face west. >> >> Try again with some content please ! > > I didn't get a log of stderr. I wish I had it turned on now. I'm using > an old RH 9 for the i686 and binutils-2.21 along with gcc-3.3.6. I have > have > gmp mpfc and mpc all installed and I am using make-3.82. I was rather > surprised when it broke. If I try again I will get a stderr log. > Can you just login remotely with an xterm or better yet fire up screen with session logging and then go to a fresh clean directory. Then let's try a boot strap again and this time everything gets logged. wdyt ? Dennis