Re: [gentoo-alt] Problems building mpfr during boostrap on OSX

[John Gibson]

On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Logan Bowers wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm unsuccessfully attempting to boostrap gentoo-alt on my MacBook
> Pro (CoreDuo, Leopard).  I can make it to code listing 1.14 in the
> instructions (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/
> bootstrap-macos.xml) before I get the following build error when
> compiling dev-libs/mpfr:
>
> ld: warning codegen in ___gmpn_popcount (offset 0x00000007)
> prevents image from loading in dyld shared cache
> ld: warning codegen in ___gmpn_popcount (offset 0x0000000E)
> prevents image from loading in dyld shared cache
> ld: warning codegen in ___gmpn_popcount (offset 0x00000015)
> prevents image from loading in dyld shared cache
> ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in
> ___gmpn_add_n from /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a(add_n.o) not allowed in
> slidable image
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [libmpfr.la] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/Volumes/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-
> libs/mpfr-2.3.1/work/mpfr-2.3.1'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>  * ERROR: dev-libs/mpfr-2.3.1 failed:
>  * emake failed
>  *
>
> For reference:
>
> bash-3.2$ emerge mpfr gmp -pv
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R   ] dev-libs/gmp-4.2.4  USE="-nocxx" 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/mpfr-2.3.2  0 kB
>
> Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> I've tried fiddling with the but CFLAGS in an attempt to get gmp to
> compile PIC but to no avail.  Anyone have some ideas on other
> things to try?  Thanks!
>
> Logan Bowers

On my CoreDuo Tiger machine IIRC gmp and mpfr are only required by  
later versions of gcc.  You might want to try restricting your  
version of gcc (say with package.mask) to 4.2 or 4.0 instead of the  
latest version.

John