Re: Failure building with libgccjit under MacOS Monterey

[Perry E. Metzger]

On 11/8/21 15:16, Alan Third wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 04:46:21PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > Howdy! I suspect this is a mistake I'm making somewhere, but I'd like a hint
> > on where to look to fix it. When building the Emacs 28 branch on the latest
> > MacOS, I unexpectedly get a failure:
> >
> >    configure: error: The installed libgccjit failed to compile and run a test
> > program using
> >    the libgccjit library; see config.log for the details of the failure.
> >
> > Looking at the config.log says (I think this is the key line):
> >
> >    ld: library not found for -lSystem
> >
> > A few weeks ago I was building JIT versions of Emacs just fine with the same
> > configuration; updating the OS might or might not have been the big change.
> > Any ideas what I might need to fix?
> How have you installed libgccjit?

Using MacPorts. The mechanism hasn't changed significantly since it was 
last working (nor has the package).

> It might be helpful to give a little more context around the error. Is
> there a complete command that it's trying to run?

I can forward the full build configure if that will help. I suspect most 
people on the mailing list don't want to see it; should I send it to you 
personally?

Perry