Re: error building gcc 3.2.1

[Stephane Carrez <stcarrez@nerim.fr>]

Hi!

Wes Groleau wrote:

> Solaris 2.8 (SPARC)  following the instructions
> packed inside the GCC 3.2.1 distribution, "make bootstrap"
> did this at the very end:
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/tmp/gcc-3.2.1/gcc/ada'
> gcc -c -g  -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes 
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional     -W -Wall -gnatpg -gnata -I- -I. 
> -I. ada.ads
> fatal error: system.ads is incorrectly formatted
> missing line for parameter: Backend_Divide_Checks
> fatal error: system.ads is incorrectly formatted
> missing line for parameter: Backend_Overflow_Checks
> fatal error: system.ads is incorrectly formatted
> missing line for parameter: Fractional_Fixed_Ops
> compilation abandoned
> make[3]: *** [ada.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gcc-3.2.1/gcc/ada'
> make[2]: *** [gnat1] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gcc-3.2.1/gcc'
> make[1]: *** [stage1_build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gcc-3.2.1/gcc'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
> 
> GNAT 3.15 was installed without error before starting the above.
> And tested by writing a hello world demo, running "gnatmake demo"
> and verifying the demo would run.
> 
> On the chance that the next step "make gnatlib_and_tools" would
> fix it, I tried that, but it got similar messages.
> 
> Any advice?
> 


I had this error too but on GNU/Linux and GNAT 3.15.


I switched back to GNAT 3.14p and I was able to build the whole stuff without
problems.  Ok, I was building gcc 3.2.2 pre-release but I guess this should be
the same with 3.2.1.

May be you can try 3.14p?

	Stephane

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