On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 11:02:02AM +0100, Simon Levitt wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I decided to attempt to build egcs-1.1.2 on my NetBSD 1.4 system last 
> night, and whilst the compliation seems to have completed successfully 
> (I didn't hang around to watch it all!) when I try and compile position 
> independant code (-fPIC) cc1 gives a warning about it not being 
> supported.
> 
> Having looked at the code, I've found the message in 
> gcc/config/arm/arm.c:313 - what I'm wondering, not having time this 
> morning to see if stuff worked (and now looking at the code and seeing 
> it is just outputting the message), is whether the warning is making 
> any difference on NetBSD/arm32, or if its aimed at RiscOS? 
> 
> I've looked over ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/arm32 and can't see any 
> obvious patches I shoud apply...

Oh, the diffs needed are _in the NetBSD cvs repository_. You'd need to
import egcs-1.1.2 on the vendor branch, then resolve any merging conflicts 
manually.

Regards,
	-is

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