On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/02/2012 06:29 PM, Roman Suvorov wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, feel free to point >> me in the right direction. > > Redirect to gcc-help. > >> I'm looking into the evolution of Linux kernel and this requires me >> to build some ancient releases (as old as 2.4.0) from source using >> GCC. I have gcc 4.4.3-4ubuntu5 installed on my lab machine but it's >> incompatible with these old sources, and the "lowest common >> denominator" would be gcc 2.95.3, so I've been trying to compile it >> from source - so far with little success. > >> It's hard but not impossible - done before by this guy: >> http://www.trevorpounds.com/blog/?p=111&cpage=1#comment-102. I >> followed all of his suggestions but so far hasn't had much luck - >> most recent attempt dies with the following message: > >> /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: error in pic/cstrmain.o(.eh_frame); no .eh_frame_hdr >> table will be created. >> >> The URL above contains a link to my stdout/stderr logs too. Has anyone here >> tried compiling such an old version of GCC? Any advice/help would be greatly >> appreciated. > > It's going to be hard. gcc 2.95 doesn't support using x86_64 as a host, > so you're going to have to build in in a 32-bit virtual machine or by > using mock. > > You'll have other problems too. gcc back then wasn't so standards- > clean as it is now; we have a lot of warnings and better diagnostics > that have allowed us to clean up gcc. I don't know why you got that > particular message, and as I said I can't look at your logs. I might > have a try myself to build gcc 2.95 later today.
You can have success with only minor patching when you stage a 3.x release inbetween and use that to compile 2.95. At least that is how I created my 2.95 build ;) Richard. > Andrew.
