From:	"jonathan bailey" <jbailey8 AT triad DOT rr DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Compile gcc 3.0
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Hello All,
I am currently trying to compile gcc3.0 from the sources released
a few days ago. I am having 2 problems at the moment:

1. At some point during configure, I see a line that says
    'Determining maximum length of command line input'
    or something close to this statement, after a minute or so,
    the computer either locks up completly, or if I'm lucky I get a
    error message stating that a invalid opcode error has occured,
    either way I have to reboot the computer. However I can fix
   this particular problem by commenting out the lines of code
   that run this test.

2. Once I get past the first problem, I run into another problem
    which is more serious, The configure part has finished by now,
   so all of the makefiles have been created, I then go to the root
   of the sources and type 'make bootstrap', this runs for a while
   and then eventually stops with the error 'xgcc ./specs permission
   denied (EACCES)'. Normally this would indicate a file conflict
   somewhere, but there are no other 'specs' files on the path other
   then the one for the compiler I am trying to use to build gcc3.0.
   One thing I have tried to correct this problem is to erase the
   specs file in the gcc3 directory and replace it with a dummy
   file called specs with nothing in the file. This seems to at least
   affect the problem a little, but then I get a new error message
   '-imacros unknown command .file stdlin', probably because
   the defs for this command was in the specs file I just erased.
   I then tried typing in just what was required to satisfy the -imacros
   command, but then I started getting the permission denied error
   again. So at the moment I don't know how to get around this   particular
problem.

A few specs:

cpu - Celeron 700 Mhz
mem - 256 megs
compiler being used to try and build gcc3.0 - gcc 2.95.2

latest versions of utilities have been installed, this had no affect
on the problem. I have read all the faq's and other info I could
find both in the root directory of gcc3.0 and on a few sites related
to gcc. No info was found concerning this problem. If anyone
knows what is going on here and knows a solution, please send
email to jbailey8 AT triad DOT rr DOT com and/or reply back to this group.
                                    thanks!
                                    john

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