Subject: Re: gcc 3.4.4
To: None <thelarsons3@cox.net>
From: Marc Coevoet <marcsje@fulladsl.be>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/21/2006 10:31:38
Op 20-jan-06 om 23:31 heeft <thelarsons3@cox.net> het volgende 
geschreven:

> After over 28 hours, my Quadra managed to compile gcc 3.4.4 and spit 
> out the binary package.  This will soon be available at my 
> mini-archive.

done it on clour classic in 1995 ..

>
> One thing I've noticed, however.  It seems that multiple identical 
> binaries have been produced.  For example, I have a cc, gcc, 
> m68k--netbsdelff2.1-gcc, and m68k--netbsdelf2.1-gcc-3.4.4 that are of 
> identical size.  There are a couple "sets" like this.  Why do I need 
> these?  Wouldn't symlinks to a single binary work just as well?  I've 
> never built gcc from source before, nor do I know much of the inner 
> workings/design of compilers in general, so maybe I'm missing some 
> practical reason this is done.  But it doesn't make much sense to me 
> now.


Cross compiling.  So you can have a ppc-linux-gcc2.95 on the same 
machine ...

Some times a HW vendor has his own cc


Marc

If I would find a Quadra that would be nice.  Have a lc III at this 
moment ...
live in belgium ..