[Info-vax] GCC for VMS, was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?

[Craig A. Berry]

In article <kkong0$4qa$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

> On 2013-04-18, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 18, 4:03 am, "Craig A. Berry" <craigbe... at mac.com.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I was recently told by someone from Ada Core that GCC for VMS can be
> >> built more or less straightforwardly by doing something called a
> >> "Canadian cross compile."  This is how they build their Ada compiler,
> >> and he was pretty sure they'd contributed back upstream anything needed
> >> to build GCC targeting VMS.
> >>
> 
> Typical. :-)
> 
> A compiler for VMS which cannot actually be built on VMS. :-)

He said they used to build it on VMS but it was so slow they stopped 
doing that and now build on Linux because it's many times faster.