[Coco] GCC6809 cross compiler, assembler & linker

[William Astle]

On 2017-08-07 11:46 AM, Tormod Volden wrote:
> The version in my PPA is basically the one from William, which is
> based on Brian's and ported to LWTOOLS. David's is also based on
> Brian's and is using David's own linker. I haven't tried building that
> one so I cannot help much there.

I thought I'd chime in with why I even bothered with my gcc6809 update.

The last release from Brian that I'm aware of is a patch against gcc 
4.3.4. Unfortunately, gcc 4.3.x does not build on at least some 64 bit 
systems due to some bug or other in the gcc core. I actually tried 
building an unmodified native compiler at the time to rule out something 
in the gcc6809 patch causing trouble and that failed, too. That is the 
entire reason I even attempted a forward port to gcc 4.6, and is also 
the entire reason I carry the patch in the lwtools source tree. 
Otherwise, I would have continued using Brian's patch and just ignored 
the as6809 stuff that was packaged with it.

That might be why some folks have reported issues building gcc6809. If 
they have the 4.3.x patch from Brian, it probably doesn't build on 
modern 64 bit Linux systems due to the above mentioned bug in the gcc 
4.3.x core.