[ale] "make bootstrap" errors.... trying to compile [egcs-1.1.2]

[Joseph A Knapka]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> Greetings !
> 
> Under Debian-2.4.9, when I.........
> 
>         ;after configure is successful
>         make bootstrap
> 
> I get...........
> 
>         ~gcc/cccp.c:    In function timestamp
>                         4085:Warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> 
>                         In function special symbol:
>                         For lines : 4212,4213,4215,4216..
>                                 dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> 
>                         In function initialize_builtins:
>                         Pertaining to lines: 9836,9837,9843
>                                 dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> 
>         [cccp.o]:       Error 1
>         [bootstrap]     Error 2
> 
> What's wrong and how is it repaired ?

This probably indicates a configuration problem somewhere.
Did ./configure complete successfully?

The warning about "pointer from integer"
is probably nothing
to worry about. The "incomplete type" errors almost
certainly indicate that the configure script had to
decide between a number of mutually-exclusive possibilities
for the layout of some data structure, and was unable
to either do so or provide a reasonable default
definition. There are a number of other possibilities,
but that's the one I've seen most often. Unfortunately,
I don't think we can help you any further without
some additional info such as:

- The exact command line you used to ./configure the
package.

- All the "make bootstrap" output.

- The text of the source files in question (which
we could get from the egcs distro, naturally).

Why such an old compiler, anyway? Just curious.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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