Re: Working gcc version to compile GNUstep

[Stéphane Goujet]

Andrew Pinski a écrit :
[gcc-4.0.0]

> Could you file a gcc bug but I will note that people use ppc-linux-gnu  
> and reported
> the results for the objc testsuite and has no problems like this before.

  In fact, it seems it was more a problem of too old binutils (ld, etc.).
  I upgraded from 2.11 to 2.15. Then I had a lot of difficulties to 
compile the compilers, but I finally manage to compile a 4.0.0, a 3.4.4 
and even a 3.3.6 .

a) 4.0.0 (4.0-20050213)

  It does not have the problem I reported anymore, but, when compiling 
gnustep-gui-0.9.4, it complains about "error: array type has incomplete 
element type" in NSGraphics.h at the line :

APPKIT_EXPORT void NSWindowListForContext(int context, int *size, int 
list[][]);

  I assume it does not like the [][].

b) 3.4.4 (3.4-20050218)

  I get an ICE at NSTextView.m:1574 :
"error: insn does not satisfy its constraints"
"internal compiler error: in reload_cse_simplify_operands, at 
postreload.c:391"

c) 3.3.6 (3.3-20050216)

  GNUstep compiles fine. Problem is that I cannot use --enable-altivec 
when I compile the compiler (but is that a real problem ?) since my 
upgrade of binutils (now 2.15).

Goodbye,
         Stéphane Goujet.