> > Is it possible to build gcc 4.8 / 4.9 (development) for OpenBSD 5.3 amd64? > > > > I tried and failed. The first stage compiler fails building libgomp > > because of a relocation problem in a DWARF frame descriptor. > > > > "relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object" > > > > I am not explicitly making a shared object but who knows what's going on > > internally. > > > > Thinking that the old GNU assembler might be at fault I fetched a recent > > binutils. Compiling that fails because the compiler gives errors about > > use of the "struct hack" (which is now blessed by standards, but still > > dangerous). I beat on the code to avoid the warning. The next obstacle > > is x86-64 openbsd is not a supported target for the linker. I changed > > the target script to treat it like netbsd. And I don't know what error > > will come next, but I expect to find one. And I don't know if old binutils > > is really the problem? > > > > Any advice? > > > > gcc 4.8 is in packages in -current and the upcoming release OpenBSD 5.4, > if you want to try and build it on 5.3 then fetching the port from the > OPENBSD_5_4 branch is probably your best starting point, you may need > to disable ada by removing amd64 from the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS-ada line to > avoid the binary bootstrap which is required). > > For 4.9 your best starting point is probably to get 4.8.1 building and > then copy/modify the port to point at 4.9 instead.
Ports worked. I needed OPENBSD_5_4 instead of the 5.3 version I had checked out. Applying the ports patches manually did not work. I needed the ports build process. Something in the rest of the ports environment is needed. Maybe CONFIGURE_ARGS in the ports Makefile sets an option that avoids the relocation bug. I'll have to investigate more another day.
