Hardest part every time :) - start.

[Dragiša Durić]

Hello people,

After some (pretty long time) I am trying to restart my Modula-2 projects.

This time I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on mu laptop. First thing, of course, I tried to get .deb from floopsie. I got it, installed it and it... failed. Problem is - Ubuntu has libmpfr.so.6 and floopsie's deb is build with .so.4.

Ok, this is easy, I thought... just get source tarball from floopsie and that will unravel.

Yes, but no... No instructions in archive. Presumably, all of us are building .deb's three times per day, or something. Ok, I google. But, Ubuntu does not have dh_make, it has dh_builddev... But in end, it failed. It looks for DEBIAN/control, when I rename debian to DEBIAN it fails because at some step debian/control was missing...

(BTW, I made a number of RPM recipes in past, and RPM is blessing compared to this unholy mess.)

Ok, I give up on .deb. But look, this source archive comes with already combined-in trees. I get into gm2 folder, mkdir build, cd build, ..configure... make SHELL=/bin/bash

Wow, it actually works... Compilation starts and for some time no purple, no cyan... Nice! I leave it and go to sleep.

In the morning....

...ing makeinfo --split-size=5000000 --split-size=5000000"  compare

make[2]: Entering directory '/home/dragisha/gm2/gm2/build'

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/dragisha/gm2/gm2/build'

rm -f stage_current

make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/dragisha/gm2/gm2/build'

Comparing stages 2 and 3

Bootstrap comparison failure!

gcc/gm2/gm2-compiler-boot/M2Version.o differs

Makefile:23761: recipe for target 'compare' failed

make[2]: *** [compare] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/dragisha/gm2/gm2/build'

Makefile:23740: recipe for target 'stage3-bubble' failed

make[1]: *** [stage3-bubble] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/dragisha/gm2/gm2/build'

Makefile:1007: recipe for target 'all' failed

make: *** [all] Error 2

Really?!??!?

Is it actually possible to make this on anything except this one Debian box in basement somewhere?

I remember it was a hell to build it on a RPM system. But it was ten years ago! On a RPM system!

I know mountain of work is put in gm2.. And I appreciate it a lot!!! But this GCC, are those people crazy? It is 2020th, and whole mess they made just got far worse in 25 years time I am trying to build things with it.

Is it possible to get some sensible instructions, or binary releases or anything except "Run son, run from Modula-2, and do not look back!"

Regards,

Dragiša

p.s. I also tried 9.2.0 branch from git... After I did sh ./combine-trees and got int scratch/sources/gm2... gcc 4.7.4 everywhere... Ok, I thought, this is maybe bootstrap version... started... and it failed after gazillion of warnings, lots of magenta and purple and then just dies with some stupid error, gnu_inline something.