Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 03:36:16 -0800 From: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> To: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: base/binutils (from ports/head -r424540) requires "gcc" to be a valid command on the host environment Message-ID: <D00E6B61-0AC2-48E2-84C0-5C3454A473D7@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <D386F64A-0C8D-41B8-81E0-524F92F87DEB@FreeBSD.org> References: <F62BDDB6-B344-47E2-855A-19EE6E9B9C57@dsl-only.net> <D386F64A-0C8D-41B8-81E0-524F92F87DEB@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2016-Nov-9, at 1:56 AM, David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org> = wrote: > On 9 Nov 2016, at 03:33, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote: >>=20 >> base/binutils for my attempted powerpc64 cross build target [from = amd64 head -r308247M] failed for lack of a "gcc=E2=80=9D: >=20 > OS X (sorry, macOS) works around this by installing gcc as a symlink = to clang. I wonder if that=E2=80=99s something that we should start = doing. >=20 > David clang and clang++ 3.8.0 do not work correctly for powerpc64 or powerpc = for FreeBSD: various forms of bad code generation and ABI violations. No = version works yet as far as I know. (There has been some recent work on this in = llvm but some of it has not been put in the FreeBSD clang/clang++ 3.9.0 = experiment so far.) (I sometimes experiment with clang/clang++ on powerpc and analyze the = problems and submit reports of the ones that I find.) powerpc64 and powerpc also do not have prebuilt packages, not even just = one for pkg itself. This makes getting both a C/C++ compiler set and pkg in place a bit of a = mess even for a cross-built bootstrap: A) pkg on the target needs to be built by a C/C++ compiler toolchain. B) /usr/ports/base/gcc usage for getting a compiler toolchain on the = target works by putting a .txz file in place for use via pkg add <THAT-FILE> = . =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard markmi at dsl-only.net
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