From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Prashant <prashanthd.first@gmail.com>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'posix_spawnp' error in build
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:33:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <22078885f012045083b9287a25dac5157e84ece6.camel@xry111.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231225162814.GS19790@gate.crashing.org>
On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 10:28 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 08:11:23PM +0530, Prashant via Gcc-help wrote:
> > I'm trying to build the gcc repository. Based on the instructions given on
> > the SummerOfCode - GCC Wiki (gnu.org)
> > <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Before_you_apply> and GCC for New
> > Contributors — GCC Contributors Guide 0.1 documentation
> > (gcc-newbies-guide.readthedocs.io)
> > <https://gcc-newbies-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>, I have tried the
> > following commands.
> >
> > 1) git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git
> > 2) cd gcc & ./contrib/download_prerequisites
> > 3) mkdir objdir & cd objdir
> > 4) ../gcc/configure --prefix=/home/path/to/gcc --enable-languages=c,c++
>
> That is wrong. Build dir as a subdir of the source dir is not
> supported. It might work in many cases, but that does not mean it is
> okay to do.
It *is* supported, per discussion at
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2023-November/638760.html.
But then you should use "../configure", not "../gcc/configure". Running
the configure script of a GCC component (instead of the top-level
configure) directly is completely unsupported.
--
Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-25 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-25 14:41 Prashant
2023-12-25 16:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-12-25 16:33 ` Xi Ruoyao [this message]
2023-12-25 23:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2023-12-26 14:04 ` Prashant
2023-12-25 18:26 ` Prashant
2023-12-29 22:40 ` Dave Blanchard
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