Re: Failure building with libgccjit under MacOS Monterey

[Perry E. Metzger]

On 11/13/21 02:21, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:23:58 +0000
> > From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> > Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> >
> > Hmm, I don't see anything wrong with the command lines. It looks like
> > the error is actually being caused by the attempt to set up or use
> > libgccjit within the smoketest.
> >
> > I don't know anything about how that works. The full error text for
> > anyone interested is below.
> >
> > configure:17126: /usr/bin/cc -o conftest -g3 -O2 -I/opt/local/include/librsvg-2.0 
> > -I/opt/local/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/cairo 
> > -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/local/lib/glib-2.0/include 
> > -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/pixman-1 -I/opt/local/include 
> > -I/opt/local/include/ossp -I/opt/local/include/freetype2 -I/opt/local/include 
> > -I/opt/local/include/libpng16 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/gcc11   
> > -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/gcc11 -L/opt/local/lib 
> > -L/opt/local/lib/gcc11 conftest.c -lgccjit   -L/opt/local/lib/gcc11 >&5
> > configure:17126: $? = 0
> > configure:17126: ./conftest
> > ld: library not found for -lSystem  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> > libgccjit.so: error: error invoking gcc driver
> > configure:17126: $? = 1
> > configure: program exited with status 1
> The line I highlighted seems to say that some dependency library is
> missing, and the linker therefore fails to link the text program.

What's weird here is that more or less nothing happened; it simply broke 
in the last few weeks. I'm guessing, though, that I'm the only person in 
a position to figure this out so I'll start digging. (I was kind of 
hoping it was a known issue and someone else had seen it previously.)

Perry