Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix on Darwin, ppc64

[Francois Bissey]

I think it looks like 

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37632

It seems like your initial compiler is at fault.

At the very least gcc spits out impossible assembly, 

you cannot branch that far on ppc64.

Can you build clang on that machine?



François



> On 11/09/2019, at 12:08 PM, Johan Hattne <johan@××××××.se> wrote:
>
> Dear all;
>
> I’m lead to believe that there’s at least one other person with a 64-bit PPC Mac at hand.  I see this problem with the linker when I try to build e.g. gcc-apple:
>
> powerpc64-apple-darwin9-gcc -m64 -std=gnu89   -g -fkeep-inline-functions -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-overlength-strings -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-common   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -o cc1-dummy c-lang.o stub-objc.o attribs.o c-errors.o c-lex.o c-pragma.o c-decl.o c-typeck.o c-convert.o c-aux-info.o c-common.o c-opts.o c-format.o c-semantics.o c-incpath.o cppdefault.o c-ppoutput.o c-cppbuiltin.o prefix.o c-objc-common.o c-dump.o c-pch.o c-parser.o darwin-c.o rs6000-c.o c-gimplify.o tree-mudflap.o c-pretty-print.o c-omp.o dummy-checksum.o \
>  main.o tree-browser.o libbackend.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a ../libcpp/libcpp.a -L/home/hattne/Gentoo/usr/lib -lintl -L/home/hattne/Gentoo/usr/lib -liconv ../libiberty/libiberty.a ../libdecnumber/libdecnumber.a
> ld: bl out of range (-17201436 max is +/-16M) from _predict_loops at 0x101321154 in __text of libbackend.a(predict.o) to _scev_initialize at 0x1002B9878 in __text of  libbackend.a(tree-scalar-evolution.o) in _predict_loops from libbackend.a(predict.o)
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> This is within an old prefix, with 4.2.1_p5666-r1 and binutils-apple-3.2.6.  I’ve googled a bit, but haven’t found anything.  Is the above something anybody recognizes?
>
> // Best wishes; Johan