On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 12:34:15 -0500 (EST) 
 "Paul H. Anderson" <pha@pdq.com> wrote:

 > Nobody asked, but I assume that some folks need gcc 2.8 for the c++
 > compiler improvements. 

FWIW, I'm planning on working on making egcs the standard NetBSD/alpha
compiler soon (within the next couple of weeks).  If someone wants to
play with egcs, please feel free to do so, and report to me any success
or problems you might have (I'm not actually going to have time to attack
it until at least the 2nd week of April, because I'll be at the IETF.)

 > 
 > I got it built this morning by doing the following:
 > 
 > 1) work from a clean install of netbsd 1.3/alpha and toolchain
 > 
 > 2) untar toochain-src.tgz, gcc-2.8.1.tar.gz
 > 
 > 3) copy the following from toolchain/gcc to  gcc-2.8.1:
 >     config/alpha/*bsd*
 >     config/*bsd*
 > 
 > 4) copy toolchain/gcc/configure lines 550 to 561 to the equivalent place 
 > in gcc-2.8.1.
 > 
 > 5) comment out the include in config/alpha/alpha.c:1847
 > 
 > 6) copy the files gcc-2.8.1/gcc-2.8.1/cp/inc/* to /usr/include/g++
 > 
 > 7) follow instructions in INSTALL to build as usual
 > 
 > I haven't done any validation testing, except on my own application.  In 
 > particular, I'm willing to believe that there may be runtime exception 
 > handling problems (I'll find out soon).
 > 
 > I just wanted to post this before I forget how to do it, which will 
 > probably be a few days at most...
 > 
 > paul
 > 
 > 
 > +------------------------------------------------------+
 > | Paul Anderson           Public Data Queries, Inc.    |
 > | pha@pdq.com             734-213-4964(W) 994-3734(H)  |
 > +------------------------------------------------------+
 > 

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