Re: gcc-2.7.2.2

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 22:14:34 -0700 (PDT)


> While attempting to compile gcc (with g77) I get a
> whole slew of the following error messages:
> /tmp/cca29349.s:13121: Error: Unknown pseudo-op: `.rdata'
> /tmp/cca29349.s:15694: Error: Unknown pseudo-op: `.rdata'
> make: *** [enquire.o] Error 1

You've somehow managed to compile gcc for the alpha-linuxecoff
target instead of elf. I don't know for sure what was included
in the g77 patches for alpha-linux, but I don't think that it
was all of the correct ones.

I'm experimenting with a promising new option in this area. See

http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/

for details.

r~