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- From: aaw@cray.com (Andy Wolff)
- Subject: Re: gcc on Motorola Delta box ca. 1985
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.124910.24577@walter.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <C0CHrq.HMM@world.std.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 12:49:09 CST
-
- In article HMM@world.std.com, moshier@world.std.com (Stephen L Moshier) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- > For several years I've been trying off and on to get gcc running on an
- >old Motorola Delta box. The unix system identifies itself as System
- >V/68 M68020 R2V2.2, copyright 1985.
- >
- > By supplying a minimal config.h, I can get cccp to compile with some
- >complaints about enums. The unix compiler supports structure
- >assignments, but apparently not reentrantly in subroutine returns.
- >cccp crashes with a core dump almost immediately.
- >
- > Has anyone succeeded porting to this system, and if so what is the
- >trick?
- >
- > Thanks,
- >
- > Steve Moshier
- > moshier@world.std.com
-
-
- Wow! I thought we were the only ones in the world with Motorola Delta boxes of that
- vintage. I have managed to get gcc built on one of those boxes; however we're running
- a much newer release of the OS (R3V6.2). I had previously tried to build it on a system
- running R3V5 but couldn't get it to work. It took on the order of 4-6 HOURS to compile
- one of the first parts of the system and eventually blew up because of some HUGE macro
- expansion in the code, as I remember. If you have the option, I would suggest trying
- to obtain a software upgrade - there are so many fixes and changes (including
- addition of networking and X-windows support), not to mention C compiler bug fixes,
- since R2V2 that I wouldn't attempt to build it there.
-
- Andy Wolff
- aaw@cray.com
-
-