Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 - Keith's Latest Progress (or lack thereof)

[Keith Scroggins <kws@radix.net>]

Hello Vincent,

> Share it !
> If the binaries are available, a lot of more people will try the new GCC, 
> they will fix the sources of their programs for it, they will find more bugs, 
> we will fix them, and we will have a better compiler for making better 
> software !
>
> The best form for binary distribution (even for testing) would be a RPM 
> package. However I don't know (yet) how to build them.

I *could* try to build an RPM, especially since I already have a native 
source tree all built and sitting on my Falcon, I would have to do a lot 
of cheating, but its better than letting RPM run for 24+ hours going thru 
the whole process again.

I was actually looking at trying to build a Binutils RPM just before I got 
this email.  I guess I might still try to do that.  Just have to make sure 
I have the current patches.

The big question is do I create an RPM that just goes ahead and replaces 
the installed GCC 2.95?

I am building ScummVM natively (to see if the thunk problems still exist 
with GCC 4.2.2, already had one wierd issue with configure, their custom 
configure did not like the cross compiled g++ (doing g++ -dumpversion, 
reported bad version when looking for 2.95 or > up to 4.9.9) but liked the 
native compiled one, really wierd, but thats something I'll look into more 
later.  I might start with binutils tonight when it completes.

As far as I can tell, RPMs basically have to be built on the machine 
natively, I have seen it said that they can be cross compiled, but never 
found any good documentation on how to do it.

Keith