Re: Building on OS X - how?

[Michael Plass <michael%plass-family.net@localhost>]

On Aug 12, 2016, at 12:54 PM, matthew green wrote:

> Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 04:05:06PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 2) /usr/bin/cc:
>>>>   Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_iconv"
>>>>   in external/gpl3/gcc/usr.bin/backend
>>> 
>>> This should be in libc.
>> 
>> For what value of "should"?  _iconv is in the implementation-defined
>> namespace.
>> 
>> It's curious that this doesn't break the tools build, and doesn't
>> prevent using the built tools to build a kernel!  If this can break
>> the cross-build of the target compiler, I think we must have suddenly
>> sprouted a rather serious instance of host/target confusion.
> 
> this fails building the native gcc, which requires a bunch of host
> tools to run.  going on your following post, there is a problem
> with genmatch.  i don't have access to any osx to test, so i'm not
> sure where to start looking.  there aren't too many rules used in
> the creation of "genmatch" binary - can you run "make cleandir"
> in usr.bin/backend/ and then "make MAKEVERBOSE=2 genmatch", and
> post all the commands run?  there probably will be a configure
> run in here, and perhaps the output of it also matters.
> 
> 
> .mrg.
> 
> 

I still have a log from the maybe-similar failure on freebsd:

https://gist.github.com/mfplass/98801ea2ab2cd3d5abd92faa3c47ab1c

It, too, is trying to build genmatch.

The config.status for host-libcpp is at https://gist.github.com/mfplass/6a75e12339bc97223854953fee1fa9fc

- Michael