On 08.07.19 23:19, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 14.06.19 15:09, Gaius Mulley wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> here is version two of the patches which introduce Modula-2 into the
>> GCC trunk.  The patches include:
>>
>>   (*)  a patch to allow all front ends to register a lang spec function.
>>        (included are patches for all front ends to provide an empty
>>         callback function).
>>   (*)  patch diffs to allow the Modula-2 front end driver to be
>>        built using GCC Makefile and friends.
>>
>> The compressed tarball includes:
>>
>>   (*)  gcc/m2  (compiler driver and lang-spec stuff for Modula-2).
>>        Including the need for registering lang spec functions.
>>   (*)  gcc/testsuite/gm2  (a Modula-2 dejagnu test to ensure that
>>        the gm2 driver is built and can understands --version).
>>
>> These patches have been re-written after taking on board the comments
>> found in this thread:
>>
>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-11/msg02620.html
>>
>> it is a revised patch set from:
>>
>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-06/msg00220.html
>>
>> I've run make bootstrap and run the regression tests on trunk and no
>> extra failures occur for all languages touched in the ChangeLog.
>>
>> I'm currently tracking gcc trunk and gcc-9 with gm2 (which works well
>> with amd64/arm64/i386) - these patches are currently simply for the
>> driver to minimise the patch size.  There are also > 1800 tests in a
>> dejagnu testsuite for gm2 which can be included at some future time.
> 
> I had a look at the GCC 9 version of the patches, with a build including a 
> make
> install. Some comments:
> 
>  - A parallel build (at least with -j4) isn't working. A sequental
>    build works fine.  I think forcing a sequential build will not
>    work well, increasing the build time too much.
> 
>  - libgm2 multilib builds are not working.  <builddir>/<target>/32/libgm2
>    is configured, but not built.
> 
>  - The internal tools in the gcclibdir are installed twice, with
>    both vanilla names and prefixed/suffixed names.
> 
>  - libgm2/configure.a has a libtool version 14:0:0, however all
>    shared libraries are installed with soversion 0.
> 
>  - no manual page for gm2m.
> 
>  - libpth.{a,so} is installed in the system libdir, which
>    conflicts with the installation of the libpth packages
>    on most distros.
> 
>  - There are three letter libraries with pretty generic
>    names installed into the system libdir: log, iso, cor,
>    min, ulm. At least for log, you have a file conflict
>    with another library.  Shouldn't these libraries named
>    mpre specific, like libgm2log?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> The installed tree:

> ./usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/m2/ulm/libulm.a
> ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libulm.a

and all static libraries are installed twice, not just libulm.a. What is the
correct location?

Matthias

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