Dear OpenBSD folks :
This may be obscure in that I really do not know how many users
there are of OpenBSD on the DEC Alpha architecture. For the past few
months I have been working to build up a small tool chain what would
allow me to bootstrap a more modern GCC compiler. The process has
been going well up until I try to bootstrap[1] GCC 4.7.4 and the system
linker ( /usr/bin/ld ) seems to need custom linker scripts.
The actual problem can be seen on the GCC "help" maillist :
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-help/2026-April/144927.html
Here the linker can not locate the C runtime object file crt1.o and
merely for a test I can copy crt0.o to that filename and we move onwards
to the next linker hurdle. The crti.o (C runtime initialization) object
is also needed. I suspect all the asm files that I need are in the CVS
sources somewhere. Specific to the DEC Alpha. However there may be a
trivial way around this hurdle. I am open to suggestions.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
[1] per instructions at :
https://github.com/just-buildsystem/bootstrappable-toolchain/blob/master/doc/BOOTSTRAP.md
