A Different Approach On BackPorting GCC

Referring to my previous posts on my attempt to backport features from GCC 4.5 to GCC 4.4, I am figuring out another way to overcome some obstacles I encountered.

One of my ways is re-download the GCC 4.4 branch again and patch it. But this time I will copy over the GCC 4.5 Makefile.in and put it in the GCC 4.4 directory.

So to download the branch, I simply followed the steps I did from my previous post using SVN.

This adventure took about 12 mins to complete. After completing the download, I copied over the Makefile.in into the new downloaded directory.


I used the patches I have created from the last time I tried backported. The first run of the patch went smoothly till it tried to patch the Makefile.in. It notified me that the script detected the Makefile.in has already been patched with this patch before and asked me if I wanted to continue.

Because I have no idea what I am doing, I typed in the letter "y" and pressed enter to continue (the default option is [n]) to continue. But I'll keep trucking through till I figure it out, hopefully in my next post I've gone past this phase.