Re: gcj cannot find ecj any more, on m68k

2012-05-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixi quod… >I’ll do that now: I’ve applied all our latest m68k patches >to the gcj-4.6 source tree and will rebuild that (takes about >3-4 days on my fastest VMs) and upload that to unreleased, >then binNMU ecj against that (it was previously built by >gcj-4.4). This appears to have fixed my issu

Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Vaugha Brewchuk
Hello group, This post is a bit off-topic since I am not actually trying to bootstrap gcc-4.6.3 on Debian but on another m68k system. I have been tinkering with my NeXTstation Turbo Color for quite a while and among other things I was able to (almost) port gcc-3.2.3. At least I have the C por

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Vaugha Brewchuk dixit: >This post is a bit off-topic since I am not actually trying to >bootstrap gcc-4.6.3 on Debian but on another m68k system. That doesn’t prevent you from taking clues from Debian, such as, which patches to apply, right? ;-) >And hence my question: has anyone successfully bo

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Vaugha Brewchuk dixit: >ICE while compiling unwind-dw2.c: What executable format do you use on NeXTstep? Is that Mach-O or something similarily cr…uel, or ELF? I’m asking because, TTBOMK, unwind-dw2.c is used for DWARF2 unwinding which is some ELF thing. Maybe you can have a peek at the configu

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 17 May 2012, Vaugha Brewchuk wrote: > > ... And hence my question: has anyone successfully bootstrapped > gcc-4.6.3 on m68k? No, I've never bootstrapped gcc on m68k, but I've seen ICEs with cross compilers over the years. > > ... I also wonder whether perhaps a different gcc-4 versi

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Vaugha Brewchuk
On 2012-05-17, at 8:38 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Thank you very much for this response and also for your other post referencing the Debian m68k patches. I will apply the patches on the next go through the build. > Vaugha Brewchuk dixit: > >> ICE while compiling unwind-dw2.c: > > What exec

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Vaugha Brewchuk
On 2012-05-17, at 8:55 PM, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Thu, 17 May 2012, Vaugha Brewchuk wrote: > >> >> ... And hence my question: has anyone successfully bootstrapped >> gcc-4.6.3 on m68k? > > No, I've never bootstrapped gcc on m68k, but I've seen ICEs with cross > compilers over the years. >

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Vaugha Brewchuk dixit: >it and see what happens. Unfortunately I will not know for at least 12 >hours what the outcome is :-). Yes, just the genattrtab takes over 9.5 >hours to execute on a 33 MHz 68040. It is an exercise in patience and >a humbling reminder of the years gone by. Don’t worry, it’

Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?

2012-05-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Vaugha Brewchuk dixit: >The biggest challenge on the NeXT is that the libraries are approx. 20 >years old. What is there of POSIX, is very broken, and many of the >standard c library functions are completely obsolete. So even once a >compile is built and works well, many tests tend to fail. Well,