Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Testers wanted! Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 06:13:29 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.misc:2139 On Fri, 02 May 2014 02:23:40 -0400, Nils M Holm wrote: > Rod Pemberton wrote: >> [snip] > > Could you strip the binaries and retry the diff/cmp? If it still > reports different files, could you send me the binaries? I don't have email right now. I can pack them up, upload, and provide a link to a file hosting site, if I can still find a free one that works. Are .tgz fine? >> Do you want me to do something else on Linux? > > You could run "make ptest systest libtest", which would have been the > next steps after the triple test. Since the stage-1 compiler compiles > the final compiler, it might work. 'strip' and 'strip -s' still results in different binaries. I tried 'touch', but 'hexdump -C' for both shows they're different too. >> I also tried your DOS build method and attempted to build >> with DJGPP as on Linux. > > DJGPP on Linux? Did not know that such a thing exists! No, I meant attempt to build them the same way as one would for Linux, i.e., not using the DOS port of the source. I.e., like: >> I might attempt to trick it into thinking it's support in configure. > > Since DJGPP is a 32-bit compiler, it would probably be best to do > a ./configure -s Linux -m 386. ... Rod Pemberton