Re: [Patch, build] Unbreak objc build

[Iain Sandoe <iain at sandoe dot co dot uk>]

Hi
Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> wrote:


> > When I tried to bootstrap with --enable-languages=default, which includes
> > objc, it failed to build libobj.
>
> care to describe exactly how the build fails?
>
> > PS: Assuming the build was indeed broken for everyone since 2 years, maybe
> > one should remove 'objc' from the 'default' languages?
> > – Which languages is
> > now nowadays supposed to use when bootstrapping? I usually have
> > 'c,c++,fortran,lto', 'default' seems to be 'c,c++,fortran,objc' (plus  
> > 'lto'
> > which is implied by --enable-lto, which is default).
>
> There's certainly more to that failure than just
> --enable-languages=default: I'm regularly using
> --enable-languages=all,... (which includes objc) without any issues, on
> all of Solaris, Linux/x86_64, and Darwin

Right, It’s not been broken at all AFAICT - I build it daily on Darwin  
(often several times) and
frequently on Linux - as does anyone building —enable-languages=all

see, for example
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2019-11/msg01480.html

there must be some other explanation ;)

cheers
Iain
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