[cfarm-users] Boostrapping gcc on gcc303

[tkoenig at gcc.gnu.org]

[re-sending to the list, the first one was bounced]

Am 17.10.20 um 14:31 schrieb Jonathan Wakely:
 >
 >
 > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, 13:00 tkoenig--- via cfarm-users, 
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net 
<mailto:cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net>> wrote:
 >
 >     Hi,
 >
 >     I am currently despairing of being able to bootstrap gcc on gc303
 >     (a FreeBSD machine).
 >
 >     The installed gcc does not work because it is too old.
 >
 >     Using clang instead, I found that that binutils is too old for gcc
 >     bootstrap.Thomas König <tk at tkoenig.net>
 >
 >
 >
 > What's the error? I don't think GCC requires a recent binutils, it 
should build with reduced functionality when an old binutils is present.

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97304

 >
 >     My request to cfarm-admins to install a recent binutils went
 >     unanswered (or maybe didn't get through).
 >
 >     Trying to build a recent binutils first failed with the problem
 >     that *.xz is not supported on FreeBSD.
 >
 >
 > Why can't you download a .gz or .bz2 file instead?

Because it's not on https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ for
the newer versions?

Anyway, I solved that problem.

 >     creating bfdver.h
 >     /usr/bin/sed -e s/NN/32/g <  > elf32-target.h
 >     /bin/sh: Syntax error: redirection unexpected (expecting word)
 >     *** Error code 2
 >
 >
 > This looks like some shell variable after < failed to get set and so 
expands to nothing. Because that syntax isn't valid on Linux either.

Result: I can't build binutils.

 >
 >     Anything else I can try?
 >
 >     I'd really like try to try out a development branch on a non-Linux
 >     platform myself, but it seems not to be working.  Are there maybe
 >     other options?
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > Check if there's a newer GCC and/or binutils installed in the ports 
collection,

How do I access that? I do not have admin priviliges on that box.

 > or in /opt/cfarm

$ ls /opt
ls: /opt: No such file or directory

 > Otherwise you could use the installed system GCC to build GCC 4.8.5, 
then use that to build trunk. But it shouldn't be needed, using clang 
and the system binutils should work.

Well, it doesn't.