Re: Building gm2-gcc-12 on NetBSD 9.1 Sparc (done)

[Gaius Mulley]

john o goyo <jog37@riddermarkfarm.ca> writes:

> On 2022-02-25 07:22, john o goyo wrote:
>> On 2022-02-19 09:58, john o goyo wrote:
>>> Nearly home, folks.
>>
>> Build has completed and check-m2 reports the following.
>>
>>      === gm2 Summary ===
>>
>> # of expected passes           7617
>> # of unexpected failures      2053
>> # of unresolved testcases    2035
>>
>> (I have not looked at the failures, yet.)
>>
>> Here were the bumps with building gm2:
>>
>> (1) "realname" is GNUish (part of binutils) -- I installed
>> "grealname" and modified the script accordingly;
>>
>> (2) "python3" was invoked -- I have "python3.8" so a symlink was needed;
>>
>> (3) the directory containing gmp.h was not propogated to m2 (no
>> problem in gcc) -- explicit inclusions were added to
>> m2/Make-lang.in;  (Brian Callahan commented that this problem was
>> previously reported and fixed.) and
>>
>> (4) failure in comparing stages -- built stage 4 only (this also
>> solved the previous problem with linking against previously built 
>> libraries).
>>
>>
>> Here are some machine details:
>>
>> uname: NetBSD <machine-name> 9.1 NetBSD 9.1 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Oct 18
>> 19:24:30 UTC 2020 
>> mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC
>> sparc64
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/pkg/lib
>>
>> My next step is to pull the latest and try building again (keeping a
>> copy of Make-lang.in, just in case).
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> john
>
> Question: Why was the missing python3 and realpath not flagged by
> configure?

Hi John,

yes, indeed a bug.  I've just git committed/pushed changes to
configure.ac testing for Python3 and realpath

regards,
Gaius