From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BB8CE3858D20 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:41:48 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org BB8CE3858D20 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=m.gmane-mx.org Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pLUbY-000AGn-0Q for gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 20:41:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org From: Christer Solskogen Subject: Re: Building and install GCC 8.3.0, OpenBSD 7.2 on DEC Alpha EV5 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 20:41:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,NICE_REPLY_A,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 20.01.2023 16:40, Mark Butt wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have OpenBSD 7.2 installed and running on an AlphaServer 4100. DEC Alpha EV5 processors. > No major issues with getting it running on this old hardware other than a slight bug one of the developers over at OpenBSD squashed for me. > > I have been having great success with building modern tools and software on the system. No problems at all. Except for one… > > A particular piece of software I am trying to build requires GCC 8.3.0 which is much newer than the version that comes with OpenBSD. I am attempting to build and install GCC 8.3.0 in a separate location from the main system compiler as OpenBSD doesn’t usually take kindly to having its system compiler version changed. > IIRC OpenBSD doesn't have any prebuilt packages for alpha, but you should be able to install gcc by using ports, which does most of the heavy lifting for you. In case your application *really* needs 8.x, the ports system have that too. -- chs