X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f X-Recipient: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <50156E5D.7090509@iki.fi> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:09:49 +0300 From: Andris Pavenis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gcc-4.8 snapshots and DJGPP References: <50152C66 DOT 9040202 AT iki DOT fi> <201207291745 DOT 54447 DOT juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de> In-Reply-To: <201207291745.54447.juan.guerrero@gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com On 07/29/2012 06:45 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: > Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Andris Pavenis: >> Tried to build the recent gcc-4.8 snapshots for DJGPP. Needed >> to update patch-set for source patching to work of course. >> >> As earlier started with building Linux to DJGPP cross-compiler RPMs >> (with DJGPP source archive as side product). >> - all seems to be OK under Fedora 17 x86_64 (cross-compiler RPMs >> gets built without problems) >> - tried to do the same under CentOS 5.8 i386 (really chroot under >> the same Fedora installation). This time no success. Perhaps >> gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52) present there is >> too old. That could perhaps be fixed by taking some intermediate >> version. >> - perhaps I should create CentOS 6.3 i386 chroot and retry >> >> After that built native compiler for DJGPP (tried only DJGPP v2.04pre). >> It built practically "out of box" except of random compiler errors >> time at time similarly as with some earlier stable version. >> >> I think that one of suspects is nmalloc used instead of DJGPP own memory >> allocation (as DJGPP free() is too slow). I had some stability problems >> earlier running my own test program (linked with nmalloc) which allocates >> large numbers of random memory blocks and after that frees them in random >> order. That memory allocation test program caused random NTVDM crashes >> on Windows Vista. >> >> Not much testing done with built GCC snapshot though. Built GMP-5.0.5, but one of >> test-suite programs (mpz/t-io_raw.exe) failed. I did not have time >> to study why it fails yet. >> >> I could make archives available somewhere if somebody is interested >> to do more testing. >> >> Andris >> >> PS. I used gcc-4.8-20120722 downloaded from ftp://gcc.gnu.org >> >> >> > > > If you make the zip files of the sources available I will try to build > them on my XP, 2K, 98SE and msdos installations. > OK. Files are at: http://ap1.pp.fi/djgpp/gcc/test/4.8.0-20120722/ I did not put RPM packages there. djcross-gcc package contains however SPEC file. Andris