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On 3/02/2014, at 6:34, Ruud Koolen <redlizard@g.o> wrote: |
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>But gcc and friends are specifically designed to be buildable on any |
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>ridiculous old system, and the use of other tools hasn't changed between my |
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>bootstrap process and the current one. Again, can you elaborate and give a |
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>concrete example? |
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Ridiculously old systems? AIX will come with gcc 4.2 if you are lucky. I never managed |
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to compile a recent gcc with an IBM compiler. gcc 4.8 has raised the bar significantly in |
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terms of how new your compiler needs to be. In the case of AIX I had to build and |
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use a more recent gcc (4.6.x or 4.7.x I don’t remember) before being able to gcc 4.8.1. |
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I also manage some SLES 11SP1 ppc64 boxes, gcc 4.8.1 will not build with the |
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gcc 4.3.4 that come as default. I don’t think it even compile with the alternate |
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gcc 4.5 toolchain they provide. |
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François |
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