On Fri, 23 Feb 1996 10:28:58 -0500 
 der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> wrote:

 > ===> gnu/usr.bin/gcc/libgcc
 > cc -O -I/sources/working-usr-src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/libgcc/../common -I/sources/working-usr-src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/libgcc/../arch  -I/sources/working-usr-src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/libgcc/../arch/sparc -Werror  -c -DL__gcc_bcmp -o __gcc_bcmp.o /sources/working-usr-

  src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/libgcc/libgcc2.c
 > /sources/working-usr-src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc/libgcc/libgcc2.c:82: unknown machine mode `__word__'
 > 
 > This looks to me like a chicken-and-egg problem, trouble building the
 > new gcc with the old (this is the first build I've done since the sparc
 > port was switched to the new gcc).  Is it possible to get around it by
 > building and installing some parts and then building the rest, the way
 > the last error like this worked?

This has been on current-users before, but to recap:

cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc
make
<pukes in libgcc>
(cd cc; make install)
(cd cc1; make install)
(cd cc1plus; make isntall)
(cd g++; make install)
cd libgcc; make; make install
cd ../
make

That ought to pretty much do it.

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