[rescue] compiling old software re: emacs on SunOS 4.1.4

[Andrew Jones]

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> On May 29, 2018, at 14:16, Romain Dolbeau <romain at dolbeau.org> wrote:
> 
> 2018-05-29 19:20 GMT+02:00 Romain Dolbeau <romain at dolbeau.org>:
>> 1) tar, distributed as a shell archive (.shar)
>> 2) gzip, distributed as a compress'ed tar (.tar.Z)
>> 3) gcc, in 4 stages (built-in cc is so bad, stage 2 and 3 differ, so
>> compare stage 3 and 4)
>> 4) make
> 
> I found some recompile I did a few years ago in qemu, and it seems the
> order is a bit different.
> gzip seems to be first, then tar, then I see bash and some utilities.
> Only then gcc. Which
> is weird, so I suspect there was multiple build on top of each other
> to get converge to an
> all-gcc build...
> 
> I have a 2.7.2.3 in there, but also a newer one:
> 
> -bash-3.2$ gcc-2.7.2.3 -v
> Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4/2.7.2.3/specs
> gcc version 2.7.2.3
> -bash-3.2$ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4/2.95.3/specs
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
> 
> I also see a build tree for 3.1.1 but no binary. Either this failed,
> or I gave up before
> qemu had the time to rebuild a 3.1.1... 2.95.3 could have been "good enough" :-)
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> -- 
> Romain Dolbeau
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