Re: Circular dependency errors

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2013-08-08 at 07:59 BST, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 3:01 Uhr +0000 8.8.2013, Paul Ackersviller wrote:
> >> The most common cause is when you don't use an external compiler, and
> >> of course you can't build lang/gcc* without first building its
> >> dependencies, which need a compiler...
> >
> >Not the problem here, as I've never even been able to build gcc from pkgsrc.
> 
> What problems did you run into?
> 
> I tried building gcc4{6,7,8} on OpenIndiana (SunOS 5.11) recently, and for
> all three ran into a weird error where something in the build appeared to
> ascend to lang/gcc??/.. and work through all the subdirectories in lang
> with lots of make errors. The same build on netbsd-6 worked fine.
> 
> Has anybody successfully built lang/gcc?? on SunOS derived OSes recently?

Yes, our SmartOS packages are entirely based on gcc46/gcc47.  I'd
suggest that you simply install my illumos packages:

  http://www.perkin.org.uk/pages/pkgsrc-binary-packages-for-illumos.html

and use the gcc47 from there to bootstrap your pkgsrc.

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