Re: HP-UX Chicken/Egg with binutils?

Sorry, meant that I was using 2.18 and it recognized ia64.  2.18 has the
issue in elflink.c.

I'll have a look at the link you sent.  Unfortunately, bootstrapping is
likely my only recourse, as I am not the sysadmin...I'm hoping to have
better results with HP's optional ANSI C compiler.




On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote:

> andrew fabbro wrote:
> > Yes, I mentally mis-sorted and thought 2.9.1 > 2.18...it is, strictly
> > decimally speaking ;-)
>
> Being the pedantic person I am (yes, a-r is hyphenated) you can't mean
> decimally because 9 < 18 in a decimal world. :-)
>
> > 2.9.1 recognizes ia64, but doesn't compile (fails in elflink.c), at
> least
>
> Uhm...  Seeing 2.9.1 confuses me.  You know that 2.9.1 is ten years
> old because we just talked about it.  Or did you mean that you did
> download 2.18 and binutils-2.18 is having a problem with elflink.c?
>
> > 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.
>
> Bootstrapping a bare system quite an involved process.
>
> Many people use the prebuilt tools at "The Porting and Archiving
> Centre for HP-UX" to good effect.  Perhaps they would be useful to you
> as well.
>
>  http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/
>
> Bob
>