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In article HMM@world.std.com, moshier@world.std.com (Stephen L Moshier) writes:
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>  For several years I've been trying off and on to get gcc running on an
>old Motorola Delta box.  The unix system identifies itself as System
>V/68 M68020 R2V2.2, copyright 1985.
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>  By supplying a minimal config.h, I can get cccp to compile with some
>complaints about enums.  The unix compiler supports structure
>assignments, but apparently not reentrantly in subroutine returns. 
>cccp crashes with a core dump almost immediately.
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>  Has anyone succeeded porting to this system, and if so what is the
>trick?
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>  Thanks,
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>  Steve Moshier
>  moshier@world.std.com


Wow! I thought we were the only ones in the world with Motorola Delta boxes of that
vintage. I have managed to get gcc built on one of those boxes; however we're running
a much newer release of the OS (R3V6.2). I had previously tried to build it on a system
running R3V5 but couldn't get it to work. It took on the order of 4-6 HOURS to compile
one of the first parts of the system and eventually blew up because of some HUGE macro 
expansion in the code, as I remember. If you have the option, I would suggest trying
to obtain a software upgrade - there are so many fixes and changes (including 
addition of networking and X-windows support), not to mention C compiler bug fixes,
since R2V2 that I wouldn't attempt to build it there.

Andy Wolff
aaw@cray.com