On 11/26/19, Tobias Burnus <tob...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> When I tried to bootstrap with --enable-languages=default, which
> includes objc, it failed to build libobj.
>
> As Rhy0lite on IRC correctly guessed, the issue is that the cet.m4 file
> is at a different location. I wonder why no one had the problem before
> in the last years – the libobjc/Makefile.in change was r254904 on Nov
> 17, 2017 (!). The config/cet.m4 file itself was also added on 2017-11-17
> in r254868.

I actually did have that problem; I just hacked around it by copying
cet.m4 from config to its parent directory and then forgot about it...

>
> Doing some more archeology, the the Makefile.in was changed by the patch
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-10/msg02314.html – and one sees
> that libobjc/aclocal.m4 has /../config/cet.m4 while libobjc/Makefile.in
> uses /../cet.m4.m4. – Actually, that's not the submitted version
> (cet.m4.m4) – as the committed version has 'cet.m4'. Approval was:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-11/msg00641.html
>
> Build on x86-64-gnu-linux.
> OK for the trunk?
>
> Tobias
>
> PS: Assuming the build was indeed broken for everyone since 2 years,
> maybe one should remove 'objc' from the 'default' languages? – Which
> languages is now nowadays supposed to use when bootstrapping? I usually
> have 'c,c++,fortran,lto', 'default' seems to be 'c,c++,fortran,objc'
> (plus 'lto' which is implied by --enable-lto, which is default).
>
>

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