ssr@taylor.Princeton.EDU (Steve S. Roy) (08/23/90)
Howdy netters, I just got at&t's cfront 2.1 and I'm working on porting it to a MIPS machine. (That's one of the machines directly from MIPS Inc, not a DEC or an SGI.) I'm using a Sun 3 for the host machine. I've followed the manual as closely and I can, and tried every permutation where there's an ambiguity, but it doesn't seem to work. I can get it to compile (in one combination) but it dies with an internal compiler error when it tries to compile the libraries. What I've done is to first get a version working on the Sun 3. This is a `make world' type operation. Very smooth. Then I configure the files in a clean copy of the source for a System V machine, use the sun to make the scratch files (with the magic of NFS) and compile them on the MIPS. It builds a cfront, but when I try to use it I get an internal compiler error. If someone out there could give me a hint about making this thing go on something besides a 3B2 or a SUN, I'd really appreciate it. Steve Roy ssr@acm.princeton.edu