Hi Ken!
On 2020-11-14 20:56:20 +0000 Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> wrote: > One last thing… > > this noise: > > <stdin>:485:11: warning: section "__textcoal_nt" is deprecated > .section __TEXT,__textcoal_nt,coalesced,pure_instructions > ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > <stdin>:485:11: note: change section name to "__text" > .section __TEXT,__textcoal_nt,coalesced,pure_instructions > ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > is coming because cctools now sends assembly to clang if clang >= 5.0 is > installed. It’s harmless. Good to know it is harmless. As a software developer, when I have a fatal error, I go up to see if there were any warnings before since they could (or not) be related. > > I don’t think that clang being the assembler is bringing out the > compact_unwind or text_reloc errors, but I’d have to experiment with that > to be certain. To do that, deactivate clangs >= 5.0 before your gcc48 build, > for example. That's what I ended doing. What is annoying is that gcc6 has exactly the same issue though! > Back when gcc48 was being implemented, and even now when Iain tests the > builds of gcc on older systems, he does it “neat” on an unmodified i386 > Leopard system, he does not do it in MacPorts. > > So our changes, like a newer linker, or sending assembly to clang instead of > “gas” , can have unexpected consequences sometimes. > > Iain always says that he’s prepared to fix gcc for older systems > (apparently he has gcc10 building on 10.4 PPC and 10.4 Intel and up), but > he’s not going to work inside MacPorts to undo our shenanigans. eheh, wow, even gcc 10 sounds super cool, that would give us access at least to "minor" Objective-C upgrades that gcc got (although the full new stuff is unfortunately still only in clang). > > I have some personal patches that force our builds of gcc to use the older > “gas” assembler that fixes up the build gcc8+ on older systems, but as > things are working quite well at present. I haven’t started forcing those > changes into MacPorts as yet. given the gcc problems, libxml2 problems, etc... a more convenient way to build a port with clang or gas is needed, the trick og "cctools uses clang always" is perhaps too invasive. > > And - you know that i have built most of this software and put it on the > ‘older systems’ binary site I sent you the link to, so if you get > frustrated, you can download the prebuilt binaries from there. Right now I am still trying, since anyway I have 10.5-64bit to update later. Riccardo
