From: premelfa AT vega DOT utc DOT fr (Fabrice Premel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problem compiling gcc
Date: 12 Dec 1996 10:50:57 GMT
Organization: Universite de Technologie de Compiegne - France
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In article <32AE25E2 DOT 6170 AT cs DOT com> you wrote:
: Fabrice Premel wrote:
: > 
: > Hi,
: > I tried to compile gcc (with djgpp, gnu make, gnu sed...), and got a message
: > saying : ld.exe error overflow line number 0x1xxxx of 0xffff
: > (can't remember what were xxxx).
: > What's wrong ?
: > I used unmodified sources, makefile ...

: The stock gcc sources cannot be compiled correctly in MS-DOS without a
: number of changes to the code, all of which have already been made by
: the DJGPP development team.  gcc makes a number of assumptions about the
: way the file system operates that are valid under Unix but not under
: DOS.

: If you really, really, want to rebuild gcc from scratch, just download
: the DOS-ready source from
: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/ and build it from
: there!  Of course, what you'll get is the same thing that you already
: have... DJGPP.  :)

Yes, I downloaded theese files, (well, there were on x2ftp, but in the same
directory, so I assume they are the same), and not a classic gcc.

: Please give us more information on what exactly it is that you are
: trying to compile gcc for.  Here are some things I can think of, with
: caveats:

:   - You are trying to build gcc to cross-compile to another platform. 
: You need to obtain the file 'v2/djcrx201.zip' and carefully read the
: information contained therein.  Information on cross-compilation can
: also be found in the DJGPP FAQ (v2/faq202b.zip).

:   - You are trying to build a version of gcc that will work with a Unix
: shell ported to DOS.  I can't help you with this one, but most likely
: you will want to bootstrap gcc from whatever compiler that shell itself
: provides you.  DJGPP-compiled programs will NOT run in Linux, for
: example; they are designed for DOS or DOS emulation only.  Again, refer
: to the cross-compilation information above.

:   - You want to build a 16-bit version of gcc to run on an older
: computer.  Sorry, but you're out of luck here.  Not only will gcc not
: work in 16-bits without MAJOR modifications, but DJGPP produces only
: 32-bit executables.

:   - You're just being anal and want the original gcc, not the modified
: DJGPP gcc.  One word:  why?

: If nothing I have written here seems applicable, please post again.

I catched a pentium patch for gcc, I think it was originally written for
Linux use, but I want to try it. So I downloaded it, tried, and it doesn't
work. I, then , tried to compile the non patched source, and it neither
compile. So I still don't know if pentium patch work. And I would
really like to get it work, since it seems to greatly enhace speed ...
Maybe I got corrupted sources, but I really don't think so, since it unzip
very well. And it seems not to be a compilation error, but a linker error
(?!?!?).

: Good luck!

I'll try without -D option too, (cf next post) (I used standard makefile,
don't know if it has -D option enable by default)
Here is the exact message :
ld.exe : cc1 : .text : line number overflow : 0x1064a > 0xffff
cc1 : final close failed : File truncated

							F.