Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: David Hubbard <david.c.hubbard@×××××.com>
Cc: John Gibson <jgibson@×××××.org>, gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Bootstrapping Problems on OS X 10.4
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:17:18
Message-Id: 20081109101707.GB23310@gentoo.org
1 Sorry for the delay.
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3 On 05-11-2008 03:02:34 -0700, David Hubbard wrote:
4 > John, Fabian,
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6 > I got the cannot compute sizeof (long long) error when attempting to
7 > build sys-devel/gcc-apple-4.2.1_p5564 on OS X 10.4.11 (intel), and
8 > found the discussion on gentoo-alt.
9 >
10 > Though I can't say what the "unknown one-operand" error is (in
11 > config.log), here is the patch that adds a call to dsymutil there:
12 > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-09/msg00057.html
13 >
14 > And a follow-up which may indicate dsymutil isn't really the right solution:
15 > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-10/msg00083.html
16 >
17 > So I reverted the part of the patch that calls dsymutil, and the
18 > ebuild now works. (Patches attached)
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20 Wow, thanks! That's very nice work!
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22 > Thus I would call it a gcc bug, but only a gcc-apple-4.2.1 bug on OS X
23 > 10.4.11, and the revert leaves the original problem of finding the
24 > dsym folder for objects packaged in a library. And none of this
25 > applies on 10.5 and above. So all in all, not worth mentioning to the
26 > gcc developers.
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28 I prefer to call it a gcc-apple-4.2.1 bug on OSX 10.4/x86, as it works
29 for me on 10.4/ppc. 10.5 indeed is unaffected.
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31 Why is the -no-dynamic thing necessary? For bootstrapping?
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34 > P.S. Please CC me on the gentoo-alt thread
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40 Fabian Groffen
41 Gentoo on a different level