g++/gcc on unixpc

[Ken Kubiak]

I've been trying to build g++ (near-1.36 version from labrea) on the unixpc.
I began by using the 1.36 gcc compiler avaliable from cheops.  Since g++
requires the gcc .o files anyway, Istarted rebuilding gcc 1.36 myself using
gcc 1.35 (which I built earlier using the gcc 1.30 compiler from umn ?).
Anyway, the problem I have with gcc 1.36 on the unixpc applies to both the 
binaries from cheops and the first-level binary I built.

When gcc is called as a loader (i.e., with a bunch of .o's), I get an error:

*** ld: command line *** -l can't find /libc.a
*** ld: command line *** -l can't find /libg++.a

Two questions:  (1) why is it looking for these?  Doesn't it just need gnulib?
                (2) why can't it find libc.a anyway?  

By the way, I edited the linker spec in gcc.c so as not to put -lc and -lg++
on the line, but then I have a bunch of undefineds, like "exit" and "fprintf"
w/o leading underscores.

I suppose I can use ld directly, but I'm curious about this problem.
Perhaps the kind person who built the 1.36 binary on cheops can give be a hint
on how he/she got past stage1.

Of course, if anybody has already built g++ for the unix-pc (aka 3b1, 7300),
that would save me a lot of headache.  If so, perhaps we could have the
binaries posted to cheops.


Thanks in advance,
Ken Kubiak
kubiak at csg.uiuc.edu

Ken Kubiak
Computer Systems Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kubiak at csg.uiuc.edu