Re: Latest AIX Status: bootstrap fails with gcc 13

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 1/16/26 12:59 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 12:16:29AM +0100, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> > On 1/15/26 2:04 PM, Roland Illig wrote:
> > > Am 15.01.2026 um 17:47 schrieb Louis Guillaume:
> > > > Trying again to get pkgsrc going on AIX 7.2, pkgsrc-current.
> > > >
> > > > ===> running: (cd /opt/pkgsrc/pkgtools/libnbcompat &&
> > > > /opt/pkg/obj/bootstrap/bin/bmake  MAKE_JOBS=1 PKG_COMPRESSION=none
> > > > PKGSRC_KEEP_BIN_PKGS=no MAKECONF=/opt/pkg/obj/bootstrap/mk.conf install)
> > > > bmake: "/opt/pkgsrc/mk/compiler/gcc.mk" line 1055: Comparison with '>'
> > > > requires both operands 'gcc-13' and '2' to be numeric
> > >
> > > I'd like to know where the string "gcc-13" comes from. At this point in
> > > bootstrap, the pkgsrc infrastructure is already in place, so you can run
> > > these commands:
> > >
> > > $ cd /opt/pkgsrc/pkgtools/libnbcompat
> > > $ /opt/pkg/obj/bootstrap/bin/bmake \
> > >       MAKECONF=/opt/pkg/obj/bootstrap/mk.conf \
> > >       show-all-gcc
> > >
> > > This will print the value of lots of make(1) variables related to GCC.
> > > Maybe you get a hint from their values, especially for
> > > _GCC_VERSION_STRING, _GCC_VERSION, _GCC_PKG.
> > >
> > > If you are still unsure, you can run make(1) with the options "-dcpv" to
> > > trace the conditions, the parsing and the variables.
> > >
> > > You can compare the runtime values with the code in
> > > /opt/pkgsrc/mk/compiler/gcc.mk to track the values through the
> > > variables, it's really just variable assignments and conditions all the
> > > way down.
> > >
> > > Roland
> >
> > Running without the `-dcpv' shows the error straight away, before printing
> > anything. But with the flags I think there are some clues.
> >
> > Seems this pattern "gcc-([0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*" is not matched because "gcc-13"
> > doesn't have a "." in it and the result keeps the whole value when filling
> > out _GCC_PKG_MAJOR_MINOR.
> >
> > Is this the problem?
> >
> >    # /opt/freeware/bin/gcc -dumpversion
> >    13
>
> Thanks for the bug report - please update pkgsrc/mk/ and try again!
>
> Cheers,
>   Thomas


That worked and I've now bootstrapped on AIX 7.2. Thank You!

And we're back to the perl-won't-build-on-AIX state of things. I will 
start a separate thread for that if need be, but it looks exactly like 
in my previous posts.

--
Louis