Public bug reported:
On yakkety and zesty, trying to compile the gcc-4.9.4 packages from source will
fail on bootstrap phase. This is because gccgo-4.9.4 will try to store non-zero
values in .bss in the assembler source, and that will trigger an assembler
error in binutils >= 2.27 provided with yakkety and zesty. The error is
explained in binutils/gas/Changelog-2015 (search bss).
I didn't go further to see if other compilers from the gcc package will trigger
this error, but it's possible as well (so far, g++, objc, objc++ and gcc itself
do not).
I know that this is rather a gcc bug and the 4.9.4 is just a maintenance
release, and the development of this version ceased; but there are still
many apps out there requiring gcc-4.9. I think a patch to solve this
would be more than useful.
Florin
** Affects: gcc-4.9 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
bootstrap fails while compiling gcc-4.9.4 packages from source on
yakkety and later
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