On 9/28/2022 20:18, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
FWIW, I just tried building GCC 2.95.2 on my Linux system (Fedora Core 32, GCC 10.3.1.
It almost built, ran into an argument mismatch error message in something called
"chill". So if you want something that old it looks like you'll have to start
by building a less ancient version, say 4.8 or so, and then use that to build the
dinosaur.
Which switches/options did you use?
Last weekend I spent some cycles to try ...
I can build the binutils around 2.32, emitting elf
No luck at all, getting gcc to compile. Support for the i860 was removed
very early after 4.0, going back to 3.x versions fails as they can't
compile on 64 bit systems. (and also never used ELF, but COFF?)
So stuck a little at the moment, I guess I have to install some linux 32
bit version, and try again ...
