🚀 go-pugleaf

Having spent 3 days struggling with various gnu packages, I'm
desperate. Hopefully some GNU sage will be able to enlighten me.

System: Sparc ELC, SunOS 4.1.1

1. Attempting to make gcc 2.5.2. Things go mostly OK, except
fixincludes complains that it could not parse several header
files. There are no diffs between stage 2 and 3. So far so good.

2. Compile & make runtest; try it on the gcc 2.3.3 testsuite, as
per README. *All* tests fail... Since documentation and output
are rather sparse, I haven't the faintest idea what exactly is
happening. Seeing
# of expected passes 1
# of expected failures 28
# of unexpected successes 0
# of unexpected failures 1265
makes me very unhappy and frustrated. Should I be using a newer
testsuite? If so, where do I get one?

3. Try making glibc-1.06. As others discovered, it fails on the
declaration of atan in math.h, apparently because glibc insists on
declaring it as "__const double", while the "fixed" gcc includes
have just "double".

Could some kind sould who successfully built gcc 2.5.2 and glibc
under 4.1.1 please send me the recommended sequence of actions,
options they used, and some hints? I will be extremely grateful.

Let me add that many utilities such as bison, grep, etc. made
with the new gcc seem to work just fine and pass all the tests.
But I'm worried that I'm sitting on a ticking bomb here, and I
need to do build some major packages soon.

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Eric Behr, behr@math.niu.edu
Northern Illinois University, Math