From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Jan 8 10:17:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA25358 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:17:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from chemserv.umd.edu (chemserv.umd.edu [129.2.64.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA25335 Mon, 8 Jan 1996 10:16:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by chemserv.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id NAA15921; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:16:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id NAA02472; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:16:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 13:16:32 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@espresso.eng.umd.edu To: Thomas Graichen cc: koden@well.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gcc v2.7.2 and libg++ v2.7.1 In-Reply-To: <199601081428.PAA01862@mordillo> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Thomas Graichen wrote: > hasn't Chuck Robey said ? ... > > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, Chaos Boy wrote: > > > > > > > > Does anyone have fixes for the gcc v2.7.2 and libg++ v2.7.1 distributions > > > so that I can compile it for FreeBSD 2.1? I'm having a problem installing > > > libg++ v2.7.1 where it exits because of a problem with the .weak assembly > > > directive. Any help appreciated and if you have fixed makefiles or source > > > files, please send them to me via email (attachments). Thanks. > > > > I understand that gcc-2.7.2 builds correctly right out of the box. I am > > going to send you the text of Doug Rabson's recent post, where he gave a > > tool for building the libg you want, but I'll send it separately, cause > > the list has already seen it. > > > it builds but you get problems if you want to build libg++ because the > weak symbols (and maybe other stuff) are set wrong in the freebsd.h > file of the gcc distribution (the weak problem you may fix by > commenting out the WEAK something part there) - some people have fixed > this for themselves - some fixes were posted to various lists here - > but i think nobody sends the fixes back to the FSF so that we can > _really_ build any new gcc out of the box on FreeBSD - so - please - > anybody who adapts FSF code to FreeBSD - send the fixes back to the > FSF so that we don't have to do all that again for each new version If you have access to a corrected freebsd.h, could you maybe post the diffs? If you did that, and I used Doug Rabson's libg++ bmake post, I could then build a complete gcc-2.7.2/libg++-2.7.1 environment, right? > > just my point > > t > _______________________________________________________||___________________ > __|| > Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen > longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin > is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik > __|| > - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de > ___________________________||__________________graichen@FreeBSD.org_________ > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: