Excerpts from Robert Dubner's message of Juli 9, 2025 4:32 pm:
> With respect, this is another example of "I have been unable to make it
> work."
>
> The gcc/Makefile.in has this line in it:
>
> $(foreach file,$(ALL_HOST_FRONTEND_OBJS),$(eval CFLAGS-$(file) +=
> -DIN_GCC_FRONTEND))
>
> At the point where gcc/cobol files are compiled, the environment variable
> has this value:
>
> CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o is -DIN_GCC_FRONTEND
>
> An attempt to override that with
>
> make CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o=-DHARMLESS
>
> has no effect on the value of the CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o
>
> I commented out the $(foreach... line and tried to set the variable with
> the make command.
>
> Even then, CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o did not seem to be set as a result.
>
> I do not know why my attempts to set CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o are failing.
>
Hi Robert,
This is to be set in cobol/Make-lang.in
--- a/gcc/cobol/Make-lang.in
+++ b/gcc/cobol/Make-lang.in
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ cobol_OBJS = \
# Frankly, I can't figure out what this does:
#
CFLAGS-cobol/gcobolspec.o += $(DRIVER_DEFINES)
+CFLAGS-cobol/genapi.o += -DHARMLESS
#
# This controls the build of the gcobol "driver"
---
Then when running make, you'll eventually see.
g++ -fno-PIE -c -DHARMLESS -DIN_GCC_FRONTEND -g -O2 -DIN_GCC
-fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -W -Wall
-Wno-error=narrowing -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual
-Wmissing-format-attribute -Wconditionally-supported
-Woverloaded-virtual -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros
-Wno-overlength-strings -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -fno-PIE -I. -Icobol
-I../../gcc -I../../gcc/cobol -I../../gcc/../include
-I../../gcc/../libcpp/include -I../../gcc/../libcody
-I../../gcc/../libdecnumber -I../../gcc/../libdecnumber/bid
-I../libdecnumber -I../../gcc/../libbacktrace -o cobol/genapi.o
-MT cobol/genapi.o -MMD -MP -MF cobol/.deps/genapi.TPo
../../gcc/cobol/genapi.cc
Iain.
