Re: Hardest part every time :) - start.

[Christoph Schlegel]

Hello,

GNU Modula-2 is available as a binary package from the official 
repositories in Debian testing/Ubuntu. I use the compiler on a "normal" 
Kubuntu installation and did not have any problems until now.

Greetings,
Christoph

Am 20.04.2020 um 12:53 schrieb 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.