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- From: kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD: Anyone using gcc-2.x on 0.1?
- Message-ID: <Bs64zs.8Dr@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul29.155631.21213@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:59:51 GMT
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- > I'm highly interested in moving to the latest version of gcc-2.x,
- > (currently 2.2.2) because:
- > b) Its ability to emit PIC (Position Independent Code) seems to be
- > a pre-requisite for shared libraries.
-
- Don't forget to upgrade "gas" (the assembler) to handle PIC (still a "gas"
- ToDo item I think).
-
- > Has anyone else "bootstrapped" up to 2.2.2 yet? Has anyone who
- > has, rebuilt the kernel with it yet? Does anyone have any reasons
- > why this might not be a good idea?
-
- I tried it a few days ago. I used "i386-bsd" as the configure type. I
- found I had to add "-D_ANSI_H" to fix a gvarargs.h problem but I don't
- know that this is the right way to handle it. It got through to the
- libgcc1.a stuff (even though I think you need a "stock" compiler for these
- functions - not sure how to fix this part) but things bombed for me when
- it tried to use the newly built gcc to compile libgcc2.a. I hope you have
- better luck and post what is needed to successfully build a copy.
-