bug#58163: closed (coreutils instalation failure x86_64)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: coreutils instalation failure x86_64 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:38:49 +0000 (UTC)

Failure at make

output from configure and make attached

uname -a
Linux xenial64-sda1 4.9.58 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 13 15:54:01 GMT 2017 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

followed:

\cd  /GS/pool/common-apps

 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils

 cd coreutils

 git submodule foreach git pull origin master

 git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib

 ./bootstrap

./configure -quiet

make

Regards ripspin

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> Thanks for sending the extra data. Oh, I see you are running GCC 5.4. 
> You have run into a GCC bug that I just now filed here:
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> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107116
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> This bug was in GCC 5 and is still present in GCC 12.
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> To work around the GCC bug, please use './configure 
> --disable-gcc-warnings' instead of plain './configure'. Or (and this may 
> be simpler) please use the latest coreutils release from 
> <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/> rather than trying to bootstrap. 
> Another possibility is to upgrade to GCC 7 (2017) or later, as these GCC 
> versions have __builtin_sub_overflow which means the code in question 
> will not be compiled.
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> I doubt whether we should modify Gnulib or coreutils to work around the 
> GCC bug, as we expect developers who are bootstrapping to use up-to-date 
> tools and GCC 6 is not up-to-date. I'm therefore closing the coreutils 
> bug report.
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