From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: dumb question: how to "apply a patch" that is needed for GNAT
Date: 1998/08/03
Date: 1998-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35C5F15D.C000481C@elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6pvhfn$5p6$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
Warner Bruns wrote:
> Thank you for this answer.
> actually, some hours after i posted my question, I found this myself.
> But, thanks again.
> I tried to compile gcc 2.7.2 with ada included..
> after some hours of compilation (the RS6000 is a 8 year old 25 MHz machine)
> the build died because "gnat1" could not be linked by "ld".
> The reason was that the TOC (table of contents, i assume) has had
> more than 65536 entries.
> Then I fetched the "binutils" in order to link with gnu-ld,
> but this gave the same error.
Yes. You need to compile everything with the GCC -mminimal-toc flag.
But I don't think you will get any version of GNAT to work safisfactorilly on
AIX 3.x. You really need 4.1.4 here, mainly because the 3.x versions have no threads.
> Isn't it a shame that one is forced to upgrade systems?
> I am shure that the compilers would run smoothly on the old OSes,
> would they only be compiled on the old OSes.
>
> I do not want to change my running systems!!!
If you want to maintain old stuff, do it with motorcycles, it's less
frustrating :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-03 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-07-31 0:00 ADA/C++ to IDL converter? David P. Brown
1998-07-31 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-31 0:00 ` dumb question: how to "apply a patch" that is needed for GNAT Warner Bruns
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Frank Ecke
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1998-08-03 0:00 ` Mats Weber [this message]
1998-08-04 0:00 ` GLADE for AIX 3.2 ??, was: " Warner Bruns
1998-08-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Frank Ecke
1998-07-31 0:00 ` ADA/C++ to IDL converter? David P. Brown
1998-07-31 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Gary W Smith
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