Re: 'posix_spawnp' error in build

[Prashant <prashanthd.first@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

Any solution you have in mind?

Thanks,
Prashanth

On Tue, 26 Dec 2023 at 04:32, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 12:33:40AM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> > On Mon, 2023-12-25 at 10:28 -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> Huh, okay.  That changed "recently" then, for some elongated timescale
> anyway :-)
>
> > But then you should use "../configure", not "../gcc/configure".
>
> Ha!  I didn't even notice that.
>
> > Running
> > the configure script of a GCC component (instead of the top-level
> > configure) directly is completely unsupported.
>
> Without all the necessary configuration arguments, yeah.  So it is still
> easier to just make an actually  separate object dir -- even if only so
> you can just blow it away when you want to start over :-)
>
>
> Segher
>