Re: [Gm2] Solaris32 report on latest ChangeLog entries (bis)

[Gaius Mulley]

john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings:
> 
> I should have added the following.
> 
>       4. install succeeds.
> 
> Sincerely,
> john
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Gm2] Solaris32 report on latest ChangeLog entries
> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:24:14 -0500
> From: john o goyo <address@hidden>
> To: gnu modula-2 <address@hidden>
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> Gaius Mulley wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > here are the latest ChangeLog entries:
> [...]
> > I wonder whether people could run the regression tests, and report
> > back. Basically they all appear to pass on LP64 and ix86, so I'm
> > hoping that gm2 might be close to a clean sweep across most
> > platforms.. I'd like to release gm2-0.5 very shortly all being well..
> 
> Good news and bad news on Solaris 10/ilp32 (Solaris32 in short):
> 
>       1. build succeeds.
>       2. gm2.paranoid succeeds (for the first time!).
>       3. check-gm2 fails on 189 cases (log to be mailed separately).
> 
> (I was off-line due to renovations so I came back to a nice surprise. #6-)
> 

Hi John,

thanks for the report! I've looked into the log file (thanks for
emailing it) and I think many of the errors are occurring when
gm2 is invoking gcc to perform the link.  I suspect the problem
is that gm2 is based on a different version of gcc to that
of the gcc performing the link?

One way to test this out is to check the output of
  gcc -v
  gm2 -v

Then if they differ it would be interesting to make them the same
and retry the build.

This can be done by building only gcc and installing it, then set the
PATH to point to this new gcc and then build gm2 using
gm2-harness-0.7.

So you might be able to do this by:

cd gm2-harness-0.7/sources/
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
../gcc-3.3.6/configure --enable-languages=c --disable-multilib
                       --enable-checking --prefix=$HOME/opt
make
make install
export PATH=$HOME/opt/bin

cd ../..  # into gm2-harness-0.7
type gcc  # check we see new gcc
./configure --with-gdb --prefix=$HOME/opt
make           # build gm2 and run testsuite
make install


hope this helps?

Gaius