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Re: Building GCC?

From arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups comp.sys.3b1
Subject Re: Building GCC?
Date 2022-08-19 10:55 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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In article <37f3d45d-3a0b-483f-9c45-b6cb29f70aadn@googlegroups.com>,
dbr...@gmail.com <dbrower@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 10:46:29 AM UTC-8, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>> Back in the day, did anyone manage to bootstrap GCC on a Unix PC / 3B1? 
>> I know that I did it, but I don't remember which version I used. 
>> 
>> Under the emulator, I am trying to bootstrap GCC 2.95.3 but it fails 
>> at configure time, apparently because there is no gettimeofday function. 
>> 
>> I suppose I could cobble one up and fake it into libc, but if there's 
>> a sure-fire recipe that anyone remembers, I'd appreciate hearing it. 
>> 
>> Thanks, 
>> 
>> Arnold 
>> -- 
>> Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com
>
>Yes, back in the day I did, folding it all back into GCC 1.x something. 
>It was painful, and it was big enough that it was of very questionable
>usability on the real machine.
>
>There were definitely library problems, and the tool chain was still
>stuck in shortnames land.
>-dB

Oh, once it was available it was usable, I used it a lot. Of course,
I had a machine with full memory and a 67 meg disk.

In any case, I am not working on it now.  Note my recent post
about Mike Haertel's work to make a cross-GCC that runs on Linux.
That seems like the way to go for future Freebee work.

Arnol
-- 
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com

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