RE: egcs and sx164

["Brian E.W. Wood" <beww intac com>]

On 17-May-98 Scott Alexander wrote:
> If I let egcs configure itself on my sx164, I get the following errors:
> 
> Configuring for a alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu host.
> Invalid configuration `alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu': machine
> `alphapca56-unkno
> wn' not recognized
> Invalid configuration `alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu': machine
> `alphapca56-unkno
> wn' not recognized
> Unrecognized host system name alphapca56-unknown-linux-gnu.
> 
> This seems fair enough, so I proceeded to configure for 
> alpha-unknown-linux-gnu and have successfully configured.  However, I'm 
> curious whether there's some other processor that I should be specifying
> that's
> less generic than alpha (for example, so that egcs will know that I do have 
> byte instructions).

Had the same problem, and have had it with a lot of other programs that
auto-config. What I did was to change the references to alphaev56 in config.sub
to alphapca56 (there were two such). Everything worked OK and I've had no
problems with programs compiled this way. Methinks the auto-config stuff should
be updated to recognize the alphapca56 CPU type.

If there is a better solution than this unsubtle hack please let me know :-)





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Brian E.W. Wood  beww@intac.com