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  • From: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
  • To: Javier Vasquez <jevv.cr AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "SM, Discuss" <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Detection of GNU C++ compiler hangs when compiling gcc 4.3.0
  • Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 11:27:03 -0700

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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