Re: Building gcc 14 fails on NetBSD/powerpc

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 08:28:38AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> I am trying to rebuild pkgs on NetBSD/macppc running latest -current.
> 
> This fails when trying to build gcc 14 for rust:
> 
> => Build dependency gcc14>=14.1: NOT found
> => Verifying package-install clean for ../../lang/gcc14
> [..]
> checking for powerpc--netbsd-gcc... /usr/pkgobj/lang/gcc14/work/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/pkgobj/lang/gcc14/work/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/pkg/gcc14/powerpc--netbsd/bin/ -B/usr/pkg/gcc14/powerpc--netbsd/lib/ -isystem /usr/pkg/gcc14/powerpc--netbsd/include -isystem /usr/pkg/gcc14/powerpc--netbsd/sys-include -fno-checking  -msoft-float -fPIC -mstrict-align
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking for suffix of executables... 
> checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in `/usr/pkgobj/lang/gcc14/work/build/powerpc--netbsd/soft-float/libgcc':

It isn't clear to me why it tries to build a softfloat libgcc at all, we 
should not need that on NetBSD/macppc.

Martin