bootstrap failure of egcs-19980508 on mips-sgi-irix5.3

[karipid@mae.cornell.edu (Daniel Karipides)]

First off, thanks to everyone who gave prebuild advice.  I'm
always impressed how helpful people on the egcs list are.

As I was warned, the current snapshot of egcs fails on irix5.3
if you use binutils-2.9.1.  Here are the details:

config.guess: mips-sgi-irix5.3

configure options: --with-gnu-as

using: binutils-2.9.1
       egcs-19980508
       latest gnumake (3.76?)

initial compiler: egcs-1.0.2

Build directory was completely separate from the src directory.

The build fails in the comparison of the final stage compiler:

  tail +16c stage$stage/$file > tmp-foo2 \
    && (cmp tmp-foo1 tmp-foo2 > /dev/null 2>&1 || echo $file differs >> .bad_compare) || true; \
done
case "compare" in compare | compare-lean ) stage=2 ;; * ) stage=`echo compare | sed -e 's,^compare\([0-9][0-9]*\).*,\1,'` ;; esac; \
for dir in tmp-foo cp f objc; do \
  if [ "`echo $dir/*.o`" != "$dir/*.o" ] ; then \
    for file in $dir/*.o; do \
      tail +16c ./$file > tmp-foo1; \
      tail +16c stage$stage/$file > tmp-foo2 \
        && (cmp tmp-foo1 tmp-foo2 > /dev/null 2>&1 || echo $file differs >> .bad_compare) || true; \
    done; \
  fi; \
done
rm -f tmp-foo*
case "compare" in compare | compare-lean ) stage=2 ;; * ) stage=`echo compare | sed -e 's,^compare\([0-9][0-9]*\).*,\1,'` ;; esac; \
if [ -f .bad_compare ]; then \
  echo "Bootstrap comparison failure!"; \
  cat .bad_compare; \
  exit 1; \
else \
  case "compare" in \
    *-lean ) rm -rf stage$stage ;; \
    *) ;; \
  esac; true; \
fi
Bootstrap comparison failure!
mips.o differs
make[1]: *** [compare] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/egcsobjdir/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

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Hope these details are helpful to someone.

-Dan
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karipid@mae.cornell.edu