Build errors with GDC

[Iain Buclaw]

On 4 July 2012 19:20, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
<joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to build GDC from source, following the instructions here:
> http://gdcproject.org/wiki/Installation
>
> I'm doing this on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit version, and I'm using the GCC 4.6.3
> sources and the --enable-multilib option.
>
> If I follow the exact make command used in the instructions,
>
>     make -j2 2>&1 | tee build.log
>
> ... then no matter what the number of cores specified, I get an error:
>
>     *** No rule to make target `libcommon-target.a', needed by `gdc'. Stop.
>
> If I just run a 'make' command without other options, I get a different (but
> by the look of it related) error,
>
> g++  -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual  -fno-common
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Id -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../include -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../libcpp/include
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../libdecnumber
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../libdecnumber/bid -I../libdecnumber    -I. -Id
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../include -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../libcpp/include
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../libdecnumber
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/../libdecnumber/bid -I../libdecnumber
> -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d -I../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d/dfrontend -Id
> -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-format -Wno-deprecated -Wstrict-aliasing
> -DGCC_SAFE_DMD=1 -o d/d-lang.glue.o -c ../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d/d-lang.cc
> In file included from ../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d/d-lang.cc:22:0:
> ../../gcc-4.6.3/gcc/d/d-gcc-includes.h:55:34: fatal error:
> common/common-target.h: No such file or directory
>
> Can anyone advise?  Am I simply using a wrong GCC version, or is there
> another issue here?
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
>     -- Joe

Using the wrong GCC version.  I've removed all backwards compatibility
code in GDC so it only supports the current trunk (give or take about
a fortnight being the current released development snapshot).   I will
be throwing something together for GCC-4.7 very soon as will be using
it as a base for packaging for distributions and porting.


-- 
Iain Buclaw

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