On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Perhaps we should look at toolchain-source? I don't like it as a > solution, but it already exists.
True. Let's allow gcc 3.1 to progress to the point where we can talk about this more seriously. For now, I don't think there's any great demand to go ahead and start packaging it now. Since there hasn't been a hint of a release schedule for 3.1 that I've seen, I'm assuming we have quite a bit of time to look into this. > On the other hand, there's quite a bit of good Alpha support in GNAT > already, so it shouldn't be too bad. It is that bad :-P The real problem is that almost all pre-compiled binaries are for 32-bit platforms. The problems with cross-compiling from a 32-bit arch to a 64-bit arch target were never fixed apparently, so the assembly that is being generated has some problems that cause it not to link. I tried for two straight days (no sleep) and couldn't get it to work at all. I was thinking of compiling on mips just for grins and to make sure that my procedure is sound (I have an Indy here...big endian, so I could easily do this). From what I can tell, though, I've got it down, but going from i386->alpha just won't fly. I'm hoping to get access to a Tru64 installation on some Alpha to work from there. Beats installing Tru64 here (I have the CDs, but need another disk and a bigger power supply to do this since my current discs are maxed). C
