Re: [Gm2] Build failure with gm2-6.4.0-20180130 mc on Solaris 10/sparc

[john o goyo]

On 07/02/2018 18:12, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> john o goyo<address@hidden>  writes:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > The latest tarball (20180130) builds fine until it reaches
> > gm2/boot-bin/mc.  LDFLAGS are not passed down to the gm2 build.
> >
> > /home/build/gcc/5.2.0/bin/gcc -g -o gm2/boot-bin/mc \
> > [...]
> > gm2/mc-boot-ch/Gerrno.o gm2/mc-boot/main.o mcflex.o -lm -lpth
> > Undefined                       first referenced
> > symbol                             in file
> > [...]
> > recvfrom                            /usr/local/lib/libpth.so
> > ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to gm2/boot-bin/mc
> >
> > Here LDFLAGS="-lnsl -lsocket -lpthread".  It appears in the gcc
> > Makefile but the options do not appear in gm2.
> >
> > Please advise.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > john
> Hi John,
>
> many thanks for the bug report - I've added LDFLAGS to the mc link on
> the:  gm2+gcc-5.4.0 branch, gm2+gcc-6.4.0 branch and gm2+gcc-svn-trunc
> branch.  Are you able to build gcc-5.4.0 rather than gcc-5.2.0 ?
> (or gcc-6.4.0 ?).  I've built and run the regression tests on gcc-5.4.0
> with this change - and all is ok on a GNU/Linux x86_64 system.
Thank you, Gaius.  I have built all three.  I will try the gm2-5.4.0 branch.

Sincerely,
jog

> gm2+gcc-6.4.0 might be attractive as it has the runtime overflow patches
> for NaNs detection and partial integer overflow detection
>
> regards,
> Gaius