Re: bootstrap/7210: bootstrap fails on darwin

[Devang Patel <dpatel@apple.com>]

The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/7210; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Devang Patel <dpatel@apple.com>
To: lakeland@acm.org
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/7210: bootstrap fails on darwin
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:18:49 -0700

 Try using "CC=cc -no-cpp-precomp"
 
 Devang
 
 On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 01:31  PM, lakeland@acm.org wrote:
 
 >
 >> Number:         7210
 >> Category:       bootstrap
 >> Synopsis:       bootstrap fails on darwin
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       serious
 >> Priority:       medium
 >> Responsible:    unassigned
 >> State:          open
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   net
 >> Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 04 13:36:00 PDT 2002
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Corrin Lakeland
 >> Release:        Head
 >> Organization:
 >> Environment:
 > ppc-apple-darwin5.4 (+ most gnu tools)
 >> Description:
 > bootstrap fails on darwin due to errors in darwin's built
 > in CC.
 >
 > cppinit.c:150: parse error before `,'
 > cppinit.c:150: parse error before `,'
 > cppinit.c:150: parse error before `,'
 >
 > The problem isn't with the tricky #define, but with the
 > preallocation of static arrays.  It seems darwin's CC
 > (modified GCC 2.95.2) cannot parse declare & initialise.
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > ./configure, make
 >> Fix:
 > Allocate the static arrays differently, or wait until gcc3 is standard 
 > on darwin and ignore the problem.
 >
 > Fixing the first file is fairly easy but it gets tedious
 > after that.  Using make -k I managed to get it down to
 > three files that needed fixing although fixing them might
 > have brought up more problems.
 >> Release-Note:
 >> Audit-Trail:
 >> Unformatted:
 >