OSR5.02 and whoops solved (?)

["Bill Walker" <bw@student.ecok.edu>]

The problem I am having with OSR 5.0.2 getting va_list defined wrongly seems
to be due to the existence of an _old_ gcc 2.7.2.1 on the system I am
making egcs on.  That gcc has a varargs.h file that is being
picked up by the top level "make bootstrap".  The top level "make bootstrap"
is using that old gcc as the native compiler.

A "work around" might be this:

	Go ahead and make the gcc in the egcs distribution in three stages,
and install it.  Then run make at the top level, and install again.


	I've got a _lot_ of folks depending on the gcc 2.7.2.1 compiler
to incorrectly compile a large software project, so I can't just remove
it right now.  That would be the simplest solution by far.

	(The software project depends on "amulet", which compiles
cleanly under 2.7.2.1, but the better error detection under egcs
stops it!  The folks involved rather have it compileable, but wrong.
Go figure. )







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