On 07/05/2013 08:02 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > Thanks so much for posting the exact steps! I finally got around to > retrying to build GDC with GCC-4.8. Using your steps above, it worked!!!
Fantastic! So glad it finally worked for you. > There was no trouble at all, except for an initial hiccup of having to > install libmpc-dev (but the configure script was pretty good about > stating exactly what is missing). The build went smoothly. To the above > steps, I'd only add 'make install' as the final step. :) Yes, I think there are one or two dependencies not mentioned on the GDC wiki which I discovered when first trying to build it. There's certainly an unmentioned package which is needed for the test suite. One of these days I'll have to set up a fresh system and try a build on it just to document what they are. > I think the fact that gcc-4.8 supports multiarch without needing to > setup the Debian sources (with the associated patching, etc.), made > things MUCH simpler and less error-prone than before. Yes, though once I discovered the trick of using gcc-snapshot (bad idea, but it worked:-) I never had any problems patching the sources. It was just an annoyance to have to do it. >> With the above done, if I pull in any updates from GDC master, I can >> rebuild as follows: >> >> cd $(GDCDIR)/dev >> ./setup-gcc.sh --update ../gcc-4.8.1 >> cd ../objdir >> make [ still use -j as many processors as you can :-) ] > > Thanks, this will come in handy when I need to update GDC. Thank Iain, who told me about it :-) Before that, I'd actually been deleting and re-unzipping the whole gcc-4.8.1 directory, meaning a complete rebuild every time. Rebuilding GDC has recently become much quicker for me ... :-) > Well, I have to thank you for posting these steps. I have given up > building GDC for a long time until I tried it again today with your > instructions. And it worked! I know exactly the feeling, I also had a long period of thinking I'd never get it working. I'm very happy these instructions were useful to you -- and I have to in turn thank the various people who helped me back then :-)
