Building EGCS from scratch

["Steven J. Madsen" <steve@moonglade.com>]

I thought I knew what I was doing with all of this, but it seems that maybe
I don't after all.  The EGCS distribution has gotten so big at this point
that I'm at a loss where to start.  I can build GCC/G++ just fine, run the
tests and even install the compiler.  My problem is with everything else in
the top-level directory.

For example, it looks like there is a version of the standard C++ library
that is built.  However, when I'm doing this (on Linux, libc5, latest
everything), I get the following error while building libiostream.a:

make[1]: *** No rule to make target `stdio.list', needed by `libiostream.a'.

It seems that EGCS is sorely missing documentation on what needs to be built
for <foo> OS, and in what order.  I've been on the mailing list for a few
weeks now, and nothing of the sort has showed up in my mailbox.

Does anyone have any pointers?  (Sorry if this sounds frazzled, but I've
been spending the better part of my spare time the last two days trying to
grok this, and I'm just not getting it...)

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Steve Madsen  <steve@moonglade.com>              PGP key available