------- Additional Comments From w dot northcott at unsw dot edu dot au 2005-02-13 22:55 ------- This is a documentation problem. The current host specific docs at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/ specific.html#alpha*-*-* read: ***************************** In Tru64 UNIX V5.1, Compaq introduced a new assembler that does not currently (2001-06-13) work with mips-tfile. As a workaround, we need to use the old assembler, invoked via the barely documented -oldas option. To bootstrap GCC, you either need to use the Compaq C Compiler: % CC=cc srcdir/configure [options] [target] or you can use a copy of GCC 2.95.3 or higher built on Tru64 UNIX V4.0: % CC=gcc -Wa,-oldas srcdir/configure [options] [target] ***************************** This is misleading and unhelpful: 1. The only effect most people will observe from the assembler change is that gcc binaries built on older (pre 5.1) versions of Tru64 will not run on 5.1. 2. The -oldas seems to be unecessary. 3. The -ieee flag is vital to bootstrap using the DEC compiler. So the configure suggestion should read: 'To bootstrap GCC, you either need to use the Compaq C Compiler: % CC="cc -ieee" srcdir/configure [options] [target]'
Could someone please please fix the documentation. Bill Northcott -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16787
