ok so if <newroot>/lib isn't symlinked to /usr/lib, gcc's first build immediately dies due to not being able to find __builtin_va_alist. HOW? IT'S FUCKING BUILTIN, GCC

it's not even like it's due to the prebuilt GCC needing it, because /usr/lib contains ZERO includable files, so it wouldn't be affected by /usr/lib not being linked, right?

but it is.

why and how

somehow, in trying to fix the type mismatch between SIZE_MAX and size_t, i forgot you can use typedef'd types... as types you can cast to!

i'm fucking stupid i swear

nope! this is even dumber. it turns out gcc in general is just stupidly sensitive to any tweaks in the system's headers, even adding whitespace can cause all of libiberty (as packed with gcc 4.4.7) to be invalid. almost every single line, starting halfway in. it looks like a missed semicolon or bracket, but the 120-some lines directly above are fine, the three header files it processed are OK, no one's to blame but a random macro that worked for 40 other lines but suddenly not here.

god i hate gcc

the modded header files even built binutils, xz, gzip, tar, m4, bison, gmp, and more just fucking fine, they all work, autoconf test suites are actually reporting fewer issues with the modded system headers than stock, almost all of it is now C99 compliant with very limited exception.

but if you add just whitespace to the headers, gcc 2.95.x loses track of all its builtins, 3.2.x can build just fine, and 4.4.7 can't bootstrap itself because it loses the ability to read in stage1, even when bootstrapping is disabled (because it does a one-stage bootstrap for its support libraries regardless.)

can't switch to a more sane language either because rust requires llvm and cmake, and those need like gcc 6.x and glibc, which are a ways off.

i've been laboring for WEEKS under the assumption that gcc-4.4.7 actually checks for --disable-bootstrap because it's in the docs and it SAYS it checks for it in the ./configure script, but i've just checked and they only actually check for --enable-bootstrap and if it's not present they just default to "yeah probably bootstrap". They never... actually... check.

Do you think they'd take patches for this old of GCC? This is some real dumb shit right here.

ok no ACTUALLY what they did is instead of being --enable-bootstrap or --disable bootstrap, SOME MOTHERFUCKER banged out enough shell script to require someone to PASS IT AS --enable-bootstrap=no

that is NOT how that shit works, please cease to be

4.2.4 suddenly works fine, but cannot bootstrap 4.4.7, because 4.4.7-stage2 goes from "libiberty is just trashed" to "gmp went missing" and i'm not sure why it doesn't check the fucking system includes directory because it's literally already there, it strips off $CFLAGS before stage3 which breaks shit, once again.

goddammit.

ok so bootstrapping 4.3.6 or 4.4.7 with 4.2.4 leads to stage2 losing gmp.h, it suddenly can't find it because it alters the include folder list. not bootstrapping 4.3.6 works fine initially, but then it can't handle define statements at all. not bootstrapping 4.4.7 isn't even possible, it ignores all possible switches related to bootstrapping.

fuck right off, gcc.

"gcc keeps losing track of includes by stage2 because it tosses out all cflags for stage2 onward of the mandatory bootstrap procedure"

at this point, fuck it, copy the entire system includes folder into the gcc folder. i don't care anymore. at this point i consider gcc an enemy combatant.

I finally got GnuTLS running, and it was segfaulting instantly upon load. Why?

Solaris this old does not have a /dev/random equivalent. Anywhere. At all. There's a patch to add it for 2.5 and 2.6, but not for 2.7. Why they didn't include it in 2.7 as well, I don't know, but the 2.6 packages work on 2.7. Speed isn't great, but fuck it, it works. Now to figure out how the fuck to get certificates without needing recent python3 or openssl (this excludes every single update-ca-certificates type package. Yes, for every distro.)

Also, I got X11R6 running, and the drivers even give me 2D acceleration on this T43. It's nice to have more than 16 colors again.