Re: Building --with-native-compilation on Ubuntu 18.04 LT

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:57:07 +0100
> 
> I'd like to compile Emacs with the --with-native-compilation support.
> But configure was complaining about a missing libgccjit executable.  I
> thought it a good idea to install libgccjit with the same version number
> as the installed gcc: libgccjit-7-dev.
> 
> But now configure is complaining that libgccjit can't compile a test
> program.

What exactly is the error message in config.log that corresponds to
this test?

> The only hint I found is on StackExchange with a recipe for Ubuntu 18.04
> using gcc-10.  Do you know if it is really necessary to install such a
> new version of gcc?

No.