Re: gcc build

["Jonathan L. Starr" <starr@belsoft.com>]

I did not make myself clear.

I downloaded a source tar.gz file from one of the mirrors to which
you refer.  I then could not build it.  Should a source tar.gz
be platform-specific?  Should it not build on Sun OS4.1.3 at all?
Or did I do something wrong?

>I downloaded gcc-2.95.2-2-src.tar from a Cygnus mirror and tried
>to build on a Sun OS4.1.3 system.  The build failed because
>directory libiberty in the directory above gcc (gcc-2.95.2-2)
>was a link to ../common, which did not exist, and so some things
>were considered missing (ostack.c, libiberty.a).

-- 
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> On Jul 22, 2000, "Jonathan L. Starr" <starr@belsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > I downloaded gcc-2.95.2-2-src.tar from a Cygnus mirror
> 
> What is a `Cygnus mirror'?  If you want GCC, get it from gcc.gnu.org
> or mirrors.  Maybe you're downloading some version of GCC specific for
> Cygwin?
> 
> --
> Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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