The egcs version in NetBSD has had many bugfixes pulled up.
	Have you tried compiling teTex from pkgsrc?


		David/absolute

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Ray Phillips wrote:

> Dear Port Alpha:
> 
> Has anyone succeeded in installing gcc-2.95.2 under 1.4.1?  I wonder if
> it's been written to compile correctly under NetBSD?
> 
> My reason for trying to to replace egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1
> release) which comes with 1.4.1 is that I want to install teTeX-1.0.6, and
> there's a note in the teTeX release which says egcs-1.29.60 won't compile
> one of its files.
> 
> (Excuse a couple of basic questions, but GCC and EGCS are one and the same
> aren't they?  What does EGCS stand for?)
> 
> As per the GCC installation instructions, I downloaded these files into the
> same directory and unzipped them:
> 
> gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz
> gcc-chill-2.95.2.tar.gz
> gcc-core-2.95.2.tar.gz
> gcc-g++-2.95.2.tar.gz
> gcc-g77-2.95.2.tar.gz
> gcc-java-2.95.2.tar.gz
> gcc-objc-2.95.2.tar.gz
> 
> then created a separate directory for the object code and ran configure
> from there.  The problem I experienced was with the next step which is to
> execute 'make bootstrap'  I used GNU make version 3.78.1.  Many warnings
> were generated such as:
> 
> warning: type mismatch in implicit declaration for built-in function `strcpy'
> warning: mktemp() possibly used unsafely, use mkstemp() or mkdtemp()
> warning: assignment discards `const' from pointer target type
> mv: rename s-crt to stage1/s-crt: No such file or directory
> mv: rename s-crtS to stage1/s-crtS: No such file or directory
> 
> and finally make halted with this statement:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/home/ray/gcc/install/objdir/gcc'
> stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/local/alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/bin/  -DIN_GCC
> -DHA
> IFA    -O2 -g -O2  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -I. -I../../gcc-2.95.2/gcc
> -I../../gcc-2.9
> 5.2/gcc/config -I../../gcc-2.95.2/gcc/../include \
> 
> -DGCC_INCLUDE_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/2.95.2/inc
> lude\" \
> 
> -DGPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/2.95
> .2/../../../..`echo /usr/local | sed -e 's|^/usr/local||' -e
> 's|/[^/]*|/..|g'`/
> include/g++-3\" \
>   -DLOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR=\"/usr/local/include\" \
> 
> -DCROSS_INCLUDE_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/2.95.2/.
> ./../../../alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/sys-include\" \
> 
> -DTOOL_INCLUDE_DIR=\"/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/2.95.2/..
> /../../../alpha-unknown-netbsd1.4.1/include\" \
>   -c `echo ../../gcc-2.95.2/gcc/cccp.c | sed 's,^\./,,'`
> ../../gcc-2.95.2/gcc/cccp.c: In function `vnotice':
> ../../gcc-2.95.2/gcc/cccp.c:9290: incompatible type for argument 3 of
> `vfprintf'
> make[2]: *** [cccp.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/ray/gcc/install/objdir/gcc'
> make[1]: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/ray/gcc/install/objdir/gcc'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> 
> 
> Ray Phillips
> 
>