[SM-Discuss] Detection of GNU C++ compiler hangs when compiling gcc 4.3.0

seth at swoolley.homeip.net seth at swoolley.homeip.net
Sun May 25 14:27:03 EDT 2008


I've seen that when the gcc-specs file was missing or corrupted.  
look in: 

/usr/lib/gcc/$PLATFORM/$VERSION/specs-local/specs-gcc
/usr/lib/gcc/*/*/specs-local/specs-gcc

and see what you find -- possibly compare with others on irc.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:47:08AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On a laptop under test grimoire, for which I haven't run "sorcery -s"
> > even before the gcc 4.3.0 release on test, I decided to go ahead and
> > perform "sorcery -s" as I did with another box some time back.
> > However at some point while compiling one of the gcc/g++ components
> > the process completely froze on one of the ./configure's:
> >
> > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler...
> >
> > Well, then I tried re-casting gcc, and I always get immediately after
> > trying casting the same error.  So, after some debug, I know that
> > what's trying to get executed is $ac_complie, which at the moment of
> > running is:
> >
> > $CXX -c $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5
> >
> > But that fails with :
> >
> > g++:  unrecognized option '-mtune=generic'
> >
> > This comes from:
> >
> > (eval $ac_compile) 2>conftest.er1 ~ line 3904 of the ./configure file...
> >
> > Why is this?  How can it be overcome?  It looks like I'm stuck, :(.
> 
> Bad additional thing is that for some reason I can't downgrade neither
> gcc, nor g++, their cache's are not available, well, the gcc one is
> available but for veersion 4.3.0, while the g++ one is gone, :(.  I
> supposed the 4.2.8 version ofboth spells were available, to resurrect
> these 2 guys, but they're not...
> 
> 
> -- 
> Javier
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