Re: Building on OS X - how?

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

FWIW, build of tools for both i386 and sparc64 finished without
problems for me on Mac OS X host (10.11.6), building from clean
sources.

Jaromir

2016-08-12 21:54 GMT+02:00 matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>:
> 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.