From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4707 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2002 17:26:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 4675 invoked by uid 71); 20 Nov 2002 17:26:02 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20021120172602.4674.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Bo Najdrovsky Subject: Re: bootstrap/1987: GCC 2.95.2 fails to build under Interix 2.2 Reply-To: Bo Najdrovsky X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg01126.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/1987; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bo Najdrovsky To: bangerth@dealii.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org Cc: ben.laws@iex.com Subject: Re: bootstrap/1987: GCC 2.95.2 fails to build under Interix 2.2 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:19:04 -0600 bangerth@dealii.org wrote: >Synopsis: GCC 2.95.2 fails to build under Interix 2.2 > >State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >State-Changed-By: bangerth >State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 19 07:57:38 2002 >State-Changed-Why: > This is a rather old bootstrap error. Can you say whether this > still happens with newer versions of gcc? > > Thanks, W. > >http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=1987 > > Honestly, I haven't tried to build it lately, but I suspect that the problem still exists unless the people at Microsoft submitted some major patches to the project. Interix is now known as Services For Unix, and I know that we have been able to get a newer version of the compiler built here inhouse (I believe it was 2.95.3), but I am not familiar with the level of difficulty that was involved in doing so. I am CC'ing the person here that built it. Ben, do you have any comments on this? Bo Najdrovsky bo@iex.com