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I'm having a headache trying to compile the GNU C compiler version 2.5.5
on my 3B2/400 (we32k processor).

Let me explain my efforts to date:
    1. Using the native compiler running under UNIX System V 3.1, errors
       ranged from "symbol table full" and "switch table full", to
       "expression too complicated", etc.

       I tried all the hints in the AT&T FAQ and the Compiler installation
       documentation to no avail (e.g. don't compile with -g, compile the
       precompiler first, etc).

    2. Next, I attempted to compile GNU C Version 1.42 in the hope that
       this would succeed with the native compiler, and perhaps enable me
       to compile GNU C 2.5.5 with a GNU compiler.

       You guessed it... my native compiler still had "symbol table full"
       errors. YUK!

    3. OK... Time to get desperate. I managed to locate the 3B2/400 binaries
       for GNU C 2.2.2 on the Internet. With this FTP'd to my 3B2/400, I now
       felt confident that I could build GNU C 2.5.5.

       Wrong again!  No errors from the C compiler now.. the native assembler
       however wasn't impressed.

       The following shows what it tells me:

       make LANGUAGES=c
           .
           .
           .
           /usr/local/bin/gcc -c -DIN_GCC -I. -I. -I./config combine.c
       Assembler: combine.c
           aline 25325 : Assembler error with short span dependent
                         procedure call.
       *** Error code 1

       Stop.

    4. OK OK OK. Beat me to death with this!  I tried to compile the GNU
       assembler (GAS 2.2) with GNU C 2.2.2, but "configure" tells me that it
       won't support the WE32K CPU architecture, even though some of the
       installation files for the assembler specifically refer to we32k!

So.  HELP!  PLEASE!

Specifically:
    does anyone know HOW to build GNU C 2.5.5 on a 3B2/400 under
    UNIX System V 3.1?
                          OR
    has someone already built it, and could they give me an FTP location
    to get it from?

Thanks...

Adrian

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