Issues when compiling on Xubuntu 14.04

Hi,
I have just built mspgcc 20120911 (last release of 4.7.x branch) on 
Xubuntu 14.04 i386. The following information could be useful to add to 
the "Install:fromsource" page on the wiki:

- On newer systems you might run into problems when compiling 
binutils-2.22, due to an incompatibility with texinfo 5.x (see [1]). To 
solve this, install texinfo 4.13 from source before building binutils 
(see [2]).
- Note that gcc 4.7.0 may not compile on gcc 4.8.x. If you run into 
issues, try installing gcc 4.4. In Xubuntu 14.04 there is still a 
gcc-4.4 package available which has been successfully tested.


Specifically, with gcc 4.8.2, I got a segmentation fault in "libgcc2.c" 
on line 81. I did not find an exact bug report for this issue, but 
similar issues were reported by others ([3], [4]) when compiling older 
gcc versions with gcc 4.8. I also tried the new " 
-fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations" option as recommended in [5], but 
that failed, so I used gcc 4.4 instead, which works fine.
The only thing I couldn't build is gdb, but I didn't look into fixing that.


Thanks,
Martin

[1] - https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg14429.html
[2] - http://petio.org/tools/texinfo.html (archived version at 
http://www.webcitation.org/6Px9bXTvI)
[3] - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56938
[4] - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56927
[5] - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56308

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