Tovrea, George W (US SSA) wrote:
Thanks for pointing out this problem. However, my build is still
failing, for a reason I tried to get support on before without success.
What 'tar' did you use to extract the source? You must use GNU tar 1.14
or later but the old SGI freeware collection only has 1.13.25.
Using the wrong 'tar' can cause many odd issues since the source
directory becomes subtly corrupted during the extraction.
Also you need GNU as but you haven't told configure where to find it.
To make sure you get the right 'as' I'd recommend using --with-gnu-as
--with-as=/path/to/as when running configure.
The SGI freeware collection is old and unmaintained so if you'd like
something more recent I'd recommend going to http://nekochan.net and
check out the 'nekoware' packages. Beware that requirements are 6.5.21
or better and a cpu that supports mips4 instruction set (ie. R5000 or
better).
The 'nekoware' distribution is the semi official successor to the SGI
freeware collection.
Also the associated nekochan forum is a friendly place for all things
SGI and a lot of knowledgeable SGI hobbyist hang out there.
I bootstrapped 4.4.0 on a machine running 6.5.30m and a full load of
nekoware using this configuration:
../gcc-4.4.0/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,ada,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,java
--prefix=/usr/people/tgc/local/gcc-4.4 --with-gnu-as
--with-as=/usr/nekoware/gnu-binutils/bin/gas --without-gnu-ld
--with-ld=/usr/bin/ld --enable-checking=release
--with-mpfr=/usr/nekoware --with-gmp=/usr/nekoware --enable-libgcj
--with-java-awt=xlib --with-system-zlib
Bootstrap compiler was gcc 4.3.1 from nekoware.
-tgc
