Re: help building from bbc-2.1-with-sources.tar.gz

begin  David A. Braun  quotation:
> On my RH-8.0 system I grabbed the tarball with sources, unpacked it,
> cd'd to meta/lnx-bbc and typed make build.
> 
> next day I looked at the what happened. It looks like it was
> building gcc 2.95.3 (died in
> /devel/gcc/work/build.d/i386-pc-linux-gnu/gcc compiling libgcc2.c
> with name=_muldi3)
> 
> seems it can't find stdlib.h and unistd.h
> 
> any suggestions on what I did wrong?

http://lnx-bbc.org/README.html
> The STABLE branch is designed to compile on the current revision of
> Debian Stable, although it may also work on other similarly composed
> GNU/Linux systems. However, our build system uses Debian Stable, and
> our published chroot environments use it as well.

You may find better luck with cvs HEAD than with old releases.  We are
only beginning to support distribution agnosticism in the build
process, and it's an uphill climb (largely thanks to Imake (grrrr)).

-- 
"Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends."
	-- Lewis Mumford

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