Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 13:26:29 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Paolo Di Francesco <paipai@tin.it>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Ultra] Compiler, again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811271322230.96971-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811271140390.1605-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I've been pulling my hair out trying to do this, i downloaded the source > rpms like you suggested... they both come with several patches which i > applied, but then it got all confusing. > > Basically, each source rpm comes with a huge patchfile along with several > other patch files, the huge patchfile i apply in the directory above the > source tree, and it patches the source tree, however it also makes a > directory where there are duplicate files of the tree. > > If i merge this directory into the extracted directory then > configure/compile it seems to work as then the binutils compiled fine, > however i think i messed up the flags i ghave to configure because while > this "method" of building worked for binutils, it seems that the same > flags passed to configure for gcc produce an empty makefile. :( IIRC, getting the whole thing to build was a non-trivial process that involved applying several patches by hand. Most of the patches supplied with the rpms have already been applied to the latest 2.7.x release. I'll revisit the build process this weekend and produce documentation to get the compiler and the rest of the toolchain built. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator <http://www.scient.com>; cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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