[M3devel] Bootstrapping cm3 on OS X 10.9.5

[Rodney M. Bates]

This is a familiar error to me, but I can't remember the details right off hand.
I would have said it was an old m3cc, but you have built the latest one,
so that theory goes down the drain.  I'll see what I can reconstruct.

On 05/16/2015 06:18 PM, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> After several years I've just tried to setup a current cm3 on my computer
> again. I've cloned the repository from github/modula3/cm3, installed
> the latest binary archive for Darwin I could find -- which is that of
> the 5.8.6 release several years ago -- and tried to compile some sources.
>
> This always fails with lots of these errors:
>
> m3cc (aka cm3cg) failed compiling: PklFpMap.mc
> new source -> compiling FpIntTbl.m3
> m3cgc1: fatal error:  *** illegal type: 0x17, at m3cg_lineno 4
> compilation terminated.
>
> regardless if I use the 5.8.6 backend or build a new cm3cg from
> sources (which actually succeeds).
>
> Any suggestions how to continue?
> Are newer bootstrap archives available somewhere?
> Any hints are appreciated.
>
> Olaf
>

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Rodney Bates
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