Subject: Re: Patches to make the tree cross-compilable
To: Dan Jacobowitz <drow@mindcryme.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 02/16/1998 17:46:48
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:

> Oddly, on FreeBSD-i386, gcc compiled perfectly fine.  ksh, however did not;
> don't expect it to work on anything but NetBSD-*.  You might want to
> comment it out.

About gcc, libcc1 (for which all my gcc patches are needed) isn't built
for powerpc. So it'll be fine. Actually, it looks like we don't really
compile gcc on powerpc. At least it doesn't seem to compile as a result of
compiling in usr.bin. We make man pages, but that's it.

> I also noticed several warnings, probably erroneous, from gas about
> possible unsafe uses of mktemp().  gcc-2.8 completely refused to compile
> libg++ because of stricter ANSI compliance; binutils warned me several
> times about "operand out of range: 32 is not between 0 and 31" on a swli
> instruction which had no 32 in it at all.  Go figure.

Weird.

Take care,

Bill