Subject: Re: Compiling NetBSD with another compiler.
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/19/2007 12:01:29
On Oct 10, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

>>> I have (as some people may know) been hacking on pcc for fun for  
>>> some
>>> years.
> ...
>
>> Thanks, ragge.
>
>> I've added this to pkgsrc/lang/pcc - all further contributions  
>> welcome.
>
>> FYI, there was great interest expressed in pcc by all of the BSD  
>> projects
>> here at EuroBSDcon 2007, since a BSD-licensed compiler is high on the
>> list of priorities for us.
>
>> Thanks once again for doing this - it's really, really neat.
>
> Can anybody fix this? The same bug appears with lcc and AFAIR tcc too.
>
> 0 ~>cat test.c
> #include <stdint.h>
>
> int a;
> 0 ~>pcc -c -o test.o test.c
> /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:254: error: "No function renaming possible"

Provide a patch that adds the renaming capability that works with your  
compiler, and I'm sure we can check it in.

(Function renaming is required by our libc, among other things.)


>
>
> 1 ~>NetBSD chen.chizhovka.net 4.0_RC2 NetBSD 4.0_RC2 (GENERIC) #1:  
> Thu Oct  4 21:42:48 EEST 2007  cheusov@chen.chizhovka.net:/srv/src/ 
> sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
> 0 ~>
>
> -- 
> Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.

-- thorpej