[M3devel] m3cc build fails on older MacOS X

[Darko]

I think supporting the latest version is enough work. I don't see the  
point of supporting older releases. Also, this seems to be relevant to  
development on that version of the system. Anyone who wants to build  
can upgrade.


On 30/09/2008, at 11:15 AM, Tony Hosking wrote:

> Does anyone really care about 10.3 now?  As I recall, it had some  
> pretty broken assumptions.
>
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Jay wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a machine running 10.3 now.
>>
>> gcc-4.3.2 (the current release) won't (toplevel) configure on  
>> MacOSX 10.3 apparently because its assembler doesn't support  
>> ".machine".
>> Current "cctools" won't compile on 10.3 without patches or other  
>> updates, due to mucking with ppc64 stuff, though that is easy to fix.
>>
>> A simple wrapper around as for use on 10.3 that strips the .machine  
>> directive is probably reasonable, or a patch to gcc to just not  
>> emit it for Darwin, except maybe for non-ppc, or subject to a switch.
>>
>> Other than support for more architectures, I never found any of the  
>> updates beyond 10.2 very interesting.
>> Though current Firefox and Safari also won't run on 10.3.
>>
>> IF I get this working, maybe I'll bring 10.2 back up also..
>>
>> - Jay
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: jayk123 at hotmail.com
>> To: wagner at elegosoft.com; m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: RE: [M3devel] m3cc build fails on older MacOS X
>> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:49:11 +0000
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't know what these Darwin versions are.
>> Mac OSX 10.0? 10.1? 10.2? 10.3? 10.4? 10.5?
>> I used to run 10.2 and could perhaps bring it back (though I'd hate  
>> to lose my PPC_LINUX install.. :( )
>>
>>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>>> Makefile:191: *** Insufficient number of arguments (2) to function
>>> `patsubst'. Stop.
>>
>> Hopefully that's enough context though.
>>
>> The rest is a cascade.
>> What happens if you remove all my m3makefile wierdness (which works  
>> everywhere else..) and just configure and make?
>>
>> Can I ssh into this?
>>
>> - Jay
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 07:57:54 +0200
>>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>>> Subject: [M3devel] m3cc build fails on older MacOS X
>>>
>>> On % uname -a
>>> Darwin apple.local 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30
>>> 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
>>> Macintosh powerpc:
>>>
>>> echo ./regex.o ./cplus-dem.o ./cp-demangle.o ./md5.o ./alloca.o
>>> ./argv.o ./choose-temp.o ./concat.o ./cp-demint.o ./dyn-string.o
>>> ./fdmatch.o ./fibheap.o ./filename_cmp.o ./floatformat.o ./fnmatch.o
>>> ./fopen_unlocked.o ./getopt.o ./getopt1.o ./getpwd.o ./getruntime.o
>>> ./hashtab.o ./hex.o ./lbasename.o ./lrealpath.o
>>> ./make-relative-prefix.o ./make-temp-file.o ./objalloc.o ./obstack.o
>>> ./partition.o ./pexecute.o ./physmem.o ./pex-common.o ./pex-one.o
>>> ./pex-unix.o ./safe-ctype.o ./sort.o ./spaces.o ./splay-tree.o
>>> ./strerror.o ./strsignal.o ./unlink-if-ordinary.o ./xatexit.o
>>> ./xexit.o ./xmalloc.o ./xmemdup.o ./xstrdup.o ./xstrerror.o
>>> ./xstrndup.o> required-list
>>> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
>>> Makefile:191: *** Insufficient number of arguments (2) to function
>>> `patsubst'. Stop.
>>> make: *** [all-libcpp] Error 2
>>> /bin/sh: line 1: cd: gcc: No such file or directory
>>> make: *** No rule to make target `s-modes'. Stop.
>>> "/Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/src/m3makefile", line 314: quake
>>> runtime error: unable to copy "./gcc/m3cgc1" to "./cm3cg": errno=2
>>>
>>> --procedure-- -line- -file---
>>> cp_if --
>>> postcp 314 /Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/src/m3makefile
>>> include_dir 360 /Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/src/m3makefile
>>> 9
>>> /Users/wagner/work/cm3/m3-sys/m3cc/PPC_DARWIN/m3make.args
>>>
>>> Fatal Error: package build failed
>>> ==> m3-sys/m3cc done
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Olaf
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