> Muthiah Annamalai wrote: > > Hello there, > > I am trying to compile GCC 4.2.1 using GCC 3.2.3. Even after massaging > > some of the Makefiles, and warning flags etc, I run into certain symbols > > like SIZEOF_REAL which arent converted from the #defines. > > > > For the GNU/Linux 2.4.21 machine, I was able to install GCC 3.4.6, on > > a local path. > > > > I want to know what is the min version of GCC I want to install, to compile > > GCC 4.x. My goal is not to have GCC cvs, precisely, but to use GCC 4.x. > > > gcc 4.2 is more critical than default gcc versions on header file syntax > checking. This is likely to be associated with headers other than those > supplied by gcc. In order to build gcc 4.2 or 4.3 on my systems, often > using gcc 3.4.3 as the bootstrap compiler, I edit libcpp/Makefile.* and > libstdc++/Makefile.* to remove the WERROR macros which make warnings fatal. <SNIP> Thanks for the suggestion! I almost simultaneously figured that out; I used GCC 3.2.3 to build GCC3.4.2, and through that finally GCC4.2, while suffering some errors on trying GCC4.1. But thanks, again. Best, Muthiah
