Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:28:05 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT ieva01 DOT lanet DOT lv>
To: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        DJGPP Workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: GCC porting questions
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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> Andris Pavenis wrote:
> > Currently building gcc for DJGPP requires LFN support and is tested under
> > Win9X only. Bootstraping gcc is much too big task for Win9X DPMI server
> > even if we'll have real symlink support (it will run out of descriptors
> > much more early).
> 
> Is it the same problem which occurs when build djdev - when you run make,
> after some progress you get 'DOS error : no load memory' or similar?
> 
> If so and if gcc bootstrap is restartable, would calling 'make bootstrap'
> three or four or whatever times in a row work?

At first we cannot simply restart bootstrapping from place build have
crashed.

Also crash in some places will force to do manual cleanup before one can
restart (hint: try 'make configure-target-libio', cancel it with Ctrl-C
and rerun, of course all this after 'make all-gcc')

Andris