From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Building GCC
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:45:29 +0100
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> ObDJGPP: Is compiling and testing GCC 2.8.0 using DJGPP likely to be
> nontrivial for a nonguru? If not, I'll consider porting it myself. And
> just how do you test it? Seeing if a hello world app compiles is not the whole
> story, methinks. :-) If the Gods of Gnu have been kind, there is a test
> makefile and sources which, when invoked, will compile while
> stress-testing the compiler, and bomb if and only if the port isn't
> working, and work if and only if it is... Is such the case?

It is the case for the Unix build, certainly.  I don't know quite how
good they are at stress testing, but as far as I can see they do things
like re-compiling bits of the compiler and comparing the objects with
what is expected.  Somehow.

For the DJGPP version: well, when I get the time to copy it onto
several (6 or 7) floppies, take it home, put it together again,
unpack it and run bash, I'll see what it does.  If you have time
to do if before I do, please let us know what happens.  I've never
ported GCC before; I gather that it does have some DJGPP support
now but I don't know how much.

(Incidentally, I'm not a 'guru' but the Unix build was quite easy.
If they've done appropriate mods for the DJGPP build then it shouldn't
take a 'guru' to do it.  If you have the time I'd say give it a try.)

Chris C