Re: An error occurred when building gcc-3.3.6

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, 13 Oct 2023, 16:01 Dingjun Chen, <Dingjun.Chen@geotechairborne.com>
wrote:

> Hi, guys,
>
> I am trying to build gcc-3.3.6 from Index of
> /mirrors/gcc/releases/gcc-3.3.6 (bigsearcher.com)<
> https://bigsearcher.com/mirrors/gcc/releases/gcc-3.3.6/> ,
> the following error message occurred. Could you please tell me how to fix
> it?
>
> My host computer: Dell Inspiron 16 plus 7630.
> GCC on host: gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
> under WSL.
>
> Why do I want to build gcc-3.3.6? because I want to use it to build Linux
> Kernel 2.4.36. It was requested to build Linux Kernel 2.4.36 with the GCC
> version < 4.2. (please see:
> home/dingjun/build_cross_gcc/linux-2.4.36/include/linux/compiler.h:45:2:
> error: #error "GCC >= 4.2 miscompiles kernel 2.4, do not use it!"
>    45 | #error "GCC >= 4.2 miscompiles kernel 2.4, do not use it!")
>
>
> I tried several gcc version (<4.2) and almost each one has some errors.
> Could you some tell me which gcc(<4.2 version) source codes are 100% sure
> to be built without errors?
>

I expect that none of the ancient versions will build without errors using
modern compilers. Modern compilers are stricter and reject code that was
accepted in ancient times.

It looks like the error below is in the fortran compiler. If you don't need
Fortran and other languages, disable them with --enable-languages=c to only
build a C compiler.





> Thanks & regards,
>
> Dingjun
>
>
> /***** an error occurred when building gcc-3.3.6************/
> In file included from ./config.h:17,
>                  from f/proj.h:30,
>                  from f/com.c:83:
> ./tree.h:2244:55: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type
> ‘unsigned char *’
>  2244 | extern tree build_string                PARAMS ((int, const char
> *));
>       |                                                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> ./../include/ansidecl.h:152:33: note: in definition of macro ‘PARAMS’
>   152 | #define PARAMS(ARGS)            ARGS
>       |                                 ^~~~
> f/com.c: At top level:
> f/com.c:11079:1: error: conflicting types for ‘ffecom_gfrt_basictype’;
> have ‘ffeinfoBasictype(ffecomGfrt)’
> 11079 | ffecom_gfrt_basictype (ffecomGfrt gfrt)
>       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> In file included from f/com.c:124:
> f/com.h:236:17: note: previous declaration of ‘ffecom_gfrt_basictype’ with
> type ‘ffeinfoKindtype(ffecomGfrt)’
>   236 | ffeinfoKindtype ffecom_gfrt_basictype (ffecomGfrt ix);
>       |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> f/com.c: In function ‘ffecom_init_0’:
> f/com.c:11624:28: warning: comparison between ‘ffeinfoKindtype’ and ‘enum
> <anonymous>’ [-Wenum-compare]
> 11624 |   if (ffecom_pointer_kind_ == FFEINFO_basictypeNONE)
>       |                            ^~
> In file included from f/com.c:16573:
> ./gt-f-com.h: In function ‘gt_ggc_mx_lang_tree_node’:
> ./gt-f-com.h:65:7: warning: switch condition has boolean value
> [-Wswitch-bool]
>    65 |       switch (TREE_CODE (&((*x)).generic) == IDENTIFIER_NODE)
>       |       ^~~~~~
> f/com.c: In function ‘ffe_mark_addressable’:
> f/com.c:14300:9: warning: this statement may fall through
> [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
> 14300 |         put_var_into_stack (x, /*rescan=*/true);
>       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> f/com.c:14303:7: note: here
> 14303 |       case FUNCTION_DECL:
>       |       ^~~~
> f/com.c:14304:30: warning: this statement may fall through
> [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
> 14304 |         TREE_ADDRESSABLE (x) = 1;
> f/com.c:14310:7: note: here
> 14310 |       default:
>       |       ^~~~~~~
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:735: f/com.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/dingjun/build_cross_gcc/gcc-3.3.6/gcc'
> make: *** [Makefile:1546: all-gcc] Error 2
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