Public bug reported: On yakkety and zesty, trying to compile the gcc-4.9.4 packages from source will fail on bootstrap phase. This is because gccgo-4.9.4 will try to store non-zero values in .bss in the assembler source, and that will trigger an assembler error in binutils >= 2.27 provided with yakkety and zesty. The error is explained in binutils/gas/Changelog-2015 (search bss). I didn't go further to see if other compilers from the gcc package will trigger this error, but it's possible as well (so far, g++, objc, objc++ and gcc itself do not).
I know that this is rather a gcc bug and the 4.9.4 is just a maintenance release, and the development of this version ceased; but there are still many apps out there requiring gcc-4.9. I think a patch to solve this would be more than useful. Florin ** Affects: gcc-4.9 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1704762 Title: bootstrap fails while compiling gcc-4.9.4 packages from source on yakkety and later To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.9/+bug/1704762/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs