Re: HP-UX Chicken/Egg with binutils?

[andrew fabbro]

Yes, I mentally mis-sorted and thought 2.9.1 > 2.18...it is, strictly decimally speaking ;-)

2.9.1 recognizes ia64, but doesn't compile (fails in elflink.c), at least not with HP's stock K&R cc.  Unfortunately, I can't build gcc until I build binutils...I'm going to see if I can track down HP's ansic compiler and see if that produces better results.

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:

Andrew Fabbro wrote:
> So to build gcc on HP-UX, I need to build binutils first, as the GNU
> docs say gas is required for HP-UX + itanium.

Yes.

> So I go to compile binutils-2.9.1...and I can't get it to recognize
> my host...?

Wow.  Binutils-2.9.1 is quite old from around 1998.  I didn't look
closely but I think ten years ago was before ia64 support was added! :-)

Please use a newer version.  Version 2.18 is listed as the current
release.  I think you will have much better luck.

 http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/

Bob