gcc compiler problems

[Gene Dascher]

Here's the question of the day:  How do I compile gcc-2.95.3 if my
current gcc compiler is horked?  I'm pretty new at all this compiler
stuff on Linux, so NO LAUGHING!

Gene

Tony Hammitt wrote:
> 
> I just recently compiled and installed gcc-2.95.3 and binutils-2.11 on SCO
> at work.  They seem to be fine.  It took a long time to compile them but it
> was educational.  First I compiled gcc with the SCO binutils, then compiled
> binutils, then recompiled gcc.  I also installed GNU make and some other
> things.  It was about a day's work.
> 
> This was all in an unsuccessful attempt to get a native compile of MySQL on
> our anchient, unsupported version of SCO Unixware.  But I like having gcc
> installed, it's a much better compiler than the one SCO shipped.  SCO's lets
> you get away with horrible standards violations and syntax errors (I've seen
> it compile and link a program using structure members that weren't in the
> typedef, etc. [how???])
> 
> So I think you should be fine with 2.95.3 and the new binutils.  They can
> be obtained from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu .
> 
> Later,
> 
>         Tony