[Gm2] Building gm2-4.7.3 on MacOS 10.5.8/PPC (bis)

[john o goyo]

On 13/09/2014 17:03, Gaius Mulley wrote (in part):
> all checked in now, sorry for the delay!  I'm seeing 90 failures on
> Debian Wheezy.  The M2LINK now honours LDFLAGS and CFLAGS.  Also the
> import bug has been fixed

Gaius, thank you!

I pulled down the changes with git, started the build, and was awarded
with a completely new (and truly odd) error:

gcc-4.2 -c -g   -m64 -mtune=970 -DIN_GCC [...] 
../../../src/gcc-4.7.3-patched/gcc/gm2/m2pp.c -o c-family/m2pp.o
../../../src/gcc-4.7.3-patched/gcc/gm2/m2pp.c:1463: warning: 
'm2pp_set_type' defined but not used
../../../src/gcc-4.7.3-patched/gcc/gm2/m2pp.c:394: warning: 'ps' defined 
but not used
../../../src/gcc-4.7.3-patched/gcc/gm2/m2pp.c:295: warning: 'pl' defined 
but not used
../../../src/gcc-4.7.3-patched/gcc/gm2/m2pp.c:416: warning: 'remember' 
defined but not used
../../../src/gcc-4.7.3-patched/gcc/gm2/m2pp.c:2304: warning: 
'm2pp_if_stmt' defined but not used
[Okay, not errors but definitely unusual.  Build error follows.]
gcc-4.2  [...] -o cc1 [...]
ld: bl out of range (-16837344 max is +/-16M) from _local_define_builtin 
at 0x101012DB0 in __text of libbackend.a(tree.o) to _apply_tm_attr at 
0x10000468C in __text of  attribs.o in _local_define_builtin from 
libbackend.a(tree.o)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [cc1] Error 1

Investigation underway.

john