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From: caa@midgardMidgard.MN.ORG (Charles A Anderson)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Fed up with Gnu CC
Message-ID: <502@midgardMidgard.MN.ORG>
Date: 6 Dec 88 00:57:10 GMT
References: <450@manta.pha.pa.us> <12015@cup.portal.com> <12042@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: caa@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG (Charles A Anderson)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: The Midgard Realm, St Paul MN
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In article <12042@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
|Though most the GNU software compiles (and executes!) fine on the UNIXpc,
|attempts to build GNU gcc (version 1.31) run up against what appears to be
|an insurmountable obstacle: lack of table space in the UNIXpc cc compiler.
|
|If it *IS* a situation of too many "#define ...", any suggestions for a
|possible workaround?

    As fas as I understand, it is.

|How have those who've build gcc before (on the UNIXpc) side-stepped this
|problem?

    I've read it here on the net from people that have compiled gcc that
you have to use the gnu cpp, a uuencode executable was posted a long time
ago, and it came through again when gcc 1.26 executables were posted.

|The GNU docs clearly state to *NOT* use gcc itself to build the gnulib and the
|first stage of compiling gcc, thus precluding use of, say, gcc-1.26 or the
|recently posted gcc-1.30.

    Don't use gcc but use the gnu-cpp.

|Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]


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