On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:42:39AM +0200, Michael Green 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.
I do not think this should be a problem. Ilya commented on x86-64, meaning 64bit binaries. > > 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: Perhaps 'i686-pc-linux-gnu'? -- Didi ================================================================= 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]
