Re: Some problems building GM2 (Solaris 11.3/Sparc)

[Gaius Mulley]

john o goyo <jog37@riddermarkfarm.ca> writes:

> Greetings, Gaius.
>
> (0) As a prelude to building gm2, I downloaded, built, and installed
> gcc-11.3.0 -- without incident.
>
> (1) Next, I downloaded gcc-8.2.0+gm2-20221031.tar.gz and tried to
> build with gcc-11.3.0.  The build failed with a rather odd error.
>
>     /home/build/gcc/11.3.0/bin/gcc -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc
> /home/build/opt/gm2/bld/gcc-8.2.0+gm2-20221031/gcc/plugin.o  \
>      -o /home/build/opt/gm2/bld/gcc-8.2.0+gm2-20221031/gcc/plugin
>     ld: fatal: file
> /home/build/opt/gm2/bld/gcc-8.2.0+gm2-20221031/gcc/plugin: open
> failed: Is a directory
>
> This is a new one on me.
>
> (2) Undaunted, I pulled down your git repository for gcc-12 (as
> directed https://www.nongnu.org/gm2/download.html). The build here
> failed with a different problem.
>
>     m2/boot-bin/mc --olang=c++ --h-file-prefix=G \
>     -I../../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-libs \
>     -I../../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-compiler \
>     -I../../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-libiberty \
>     -I../../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-gcc \
>     --quiet  --gcc-config-system --extended-opaque \
>     -o=m2/gm2-compiler-boot/M2GCCDeclare.c \
>     ../../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-compiler/M2GCCDeclare.mod
>     failed to open
> ../../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-compiler/M2GCCDeclare.mod
>
> Yet, it is there:
>
>     $ ls -l ../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-compiler/M2GCCDeclare.mod
>     -rw-r--r--   1 build    staff     164138 Nov  1 17:36
> ../../src/gcc-git/gcc/m2/gm2-compiler/M2GCCDeclare.mod
>
> Any ideas?

Hi John,

on (2) I wonder if mc is leaking file descriptors.  I will investigate -
it has been reported a short time ago - also on solaris iirc.  I'm not
sure about (1) though (possibly the same issue).  But I'll definitely
start by searching for missing close in 'mc',

regards,
Gaius