Silly suggestion: why not just install binary gcc-2.95 for i386 with all needed 32-bit libraries ?
Valery. --- Michael Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/23/06, Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 11/23/06, Michael Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm trying to build old gcc-2.95.* on AMD x64 > with RHEL4. > > > > Does such an old version of gcc even support > x86-64 (as a target for > > the code it compiles, not as a target to run on)? > > Do you mean by that that it would be impossible to > use gcc 2.9x on x64 > to compile our old code? We don't require the > resulting binary to be > 64bit, 32bit is just fine. > > Problem is, we have old code here that doesn't > compile with any gcc > higher than 2.95. Currenty the code runs on old Xeon > 32bit based > cluster, and that hardware is running out of > warrantly and is hassle > to maintain on OS level. We would be happy to > migrate that code to > our newer cluster which is AMD x64/RHEL AS4. > > In the light of above what are my options? Porting > the code to newer > gcc is not feasable. > > If not, try > > 'configure' with --target=i686. > Gives: > > # ./configure --target=i686 > Configuring for a x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu host. > Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': > machine > `x86_64-unknown' not recognized > Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': > machine > `x86_64-unknown' not recognized > Unrecognized host system name > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. > > also > > # ./configure --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > Configuring for a x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu host. > Invalid configuration `x86_64-pc-linux-gnu': machine > `x86_64-pc' not recognized > Unrecognized build system name x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. > > > :( > > -- > Warm regards, > Michael Green > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., > run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
