Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 - My Status....

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

MiKRO wrote:
> > Got binutils compiled and installed under aranym on my macbook pro
> > 2.4ghz.  All I have to say is ... wow.  This machine + recent JIT build
> > = amazing aranym performance.  The configure script for instance just
> > whizzes by.  I also installed a current build on my server and couldn't
> > help but notice how much faster it is now than before.  Excellent :)
> >     
> oh yes, especially configure scripts are getting faster. also disk i/o
> is superior compared to falcon (try to compile texinfo 4.11 -- there's
> some test for mkstemp which 70 times creates some big files -- it took
> AGES on falcon to pass and on aranym matter of 30 secs ;)
>
>   
> > Still working on GCC.  My image ran out of disk space :-P.
> >
> >     
> so you've chosen to compile binutils 2.18 with gcc2 and then gcc4 with
> gcc2+binutils 2.18? Maybe you should make some test-check since as I
> wrote, mintlib with the configuration of gcc2+binutils2.18 failed in
> the nearest linking so... you can waste a lot of time for such bad
> surprise.
>
>   
Mikro,

It's so fast it's not a waste of time at all.  I can compile mintlib now 
in less than 20 minutes I think (though I didn't time it).  For me, I 
did this:

Compile binutils 2.18.  Fails...
Compile new mintlib with patches, install
Compile binutils 2.18 .. fails again
realize I am missing some patches
patch up and compile again.. succeeds.. install
Compile mintlib again with new binutils.. WORKS for me :)

Need to free up disk space for gcc, but you guys have made some amazing 
progress.  All of this is working pretty well perfectly for me :)

Thanks,
Mark