mini progress report

I got Boris to make me an account on the cdot machine known as ireland and I downloaded the gcc trunk using the command: "svn co http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk" which downloaded it to my home directory.

I then ran "./configure --prefix=/home/jddeni/gcc/dist --disable-multilib" to disable multi-library support and let that finish. I then ran make and it went for an hour or so after coming to an end and there seems to be no errors.

I will not run make install unless its on a vm because I am just too paranoid I will ruin something lol so we will set up a vm and then run make install and see if that works, then onto the spec file.

To be continued...

Progress report

Me and Boris have been working on gcc (Boris moreso over the past week due to intense workload)
the errors we were getting were related to bootstrap so we found a command to disable the bootstrap upon build "--disable-bootstrap" this did get us a little further in the build process however it ultimately ended up in failure.

Boris spoke to someone on IRC, ehren (who has actually been pretty helpful, even now he is aiding us), and he mentioned to try the configure/make process of the tarball on ireland. Upon first run we kept getting the same errors as before, however we then tried building with the "--disable-multilib" option (which is where it was failing before you are keeping up with my blogs) and it is still running with no errors as of yet (it has been going for 1 hour).

If (and this is a very good chance) the build is successful we will then start our spec file from scratch.

to be continued.....