Hi there, I have the following error while trying to build on Itanium: gcc -DUSE_LIBUNWIND_EXCEPTIONS -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-common -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o cc1-dummy c-lang.o stub-objc.o attribs.o c-errors.o c-lex.o c-pragma.o c-decl.o c-typeck.o c-convert.o c-aux-info.o c-common.o c-opts.o c-format.o c-semantics.o c-incpath.o cppdefault.o c-ppoutput.o c-cppbuiltin.o prefix.o c-objc-common.o c-dump.o c-pch.o c-parser.o c-gimplify.o tree-mudflap.o c-pretty-print.o c-omp.o dummy-checksum.o \ main.o tree-browser.o libbackend.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a attribs.o: In function `decl_attributes': /home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128/gcc/../../gcc-4.2-20060128/gcc/attribs.c:149: relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B tree_check_failed /home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128/gcc/../../gcc-4.2-20060128/gcc/attribs.c:150: relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B tree_check_failed ........... bunch of similar lines ............ /home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128/gcc/../../gcc-4.2-20060128/gcc/attribs.c:310: relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B build_type_attribute_variant /home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128/gcc/../../gcc-4.2-20060128/gcc/attribs.c:320: relocation truncated to fit: PCREL21B build_pointer_type collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [cc1-dummy] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128/gcc' make[2]: *** [all-stage1-gcc] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128' make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dambra/GNUBUILD/obj-4.2-20060128' make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 [dambra@mgt obj-4.2-20060128]$ [dambra@mgt obj-4.2-20060128]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor : GenuineIntel arch : IA-64 family : Itanium 2 model : 1 revision : 5 archrev : 0 features : branchlong cpu number : 0 cpu regs : 4 cpu MHz : 1400.000000 itc MHz : 1400.000000 BogoMIPS : 2097.15 [dambra@mgt obj-4.2-20060128]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS (Derry) [dambra@mgt obj-4.2-20060128]$ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/ia64-redhat-linux/2.96/specs gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-118.7.2) >From the GCC installation notes I suspect that it is not easy/possible to bootstrap starting from gcc 2.96. Is there any way to force this to work? Thanks Salvatore -- Salvatore Filippone -- sfilippone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
