https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43301
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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--- Comment #7 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Iain Sandoe from comment #6)
> JFTR, I had cause to use this today on powerpc-darwin9, and it seemed to
> DTRT - so it would be useful to establish what it was that did not work
> before, that was fixed by the patch.
>
> /src-local/gcc-git-11/configure
> --prefix=/opt/iains/powerpc-apple-darwin9/gcc-11-3Dr2d
> --build=powerpc-apple-darwin9 --enable-languages=all --with-tune-cpu=G5
> --enable-libphobos --with-libphobos-druntime-only
> CC=powerpc-apple-darwin-gcc CXX=powerpc-apple-darwin-g++
> --with-build-time-tools=/opt/iains/powerpc-apple-darwin9/gcc-11-3Dr2d/bin
>
> Without the
> "--with-build-time-tools=/opt/iains/powerpc-apple-darwin9/gcc-11-3Dr2d/bin"
> the system linker and assembler are found and used (which fails to work with
> D, causing a bootstrap fail) with the option, the relevant tools are found
> and bootstrap succeeded....
>
> (so I am not sure what the original problem was
> since $build is not specified in the summary, I guess we must assume it was
> i686-pc-cygwin so perhaps the problem is specific to that setup?)
Alexandre Oliva's assessment is that the issue was just one having an old build
left over, and that all the patch did was to force a rebuild:
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2022-August/599169.html
(so we might be going with his patch instead)
