Re: Bootstrap error

["Douglas B. Staple" <dstaple at Dal dot Ca>]

Hey Jonathan,

Thanks for the ideas. I tried:
1) removing the '-j 16'
2) using an absolute path when calling configure.
3) using the contrib/download_prerequisites script to download 
mpfr-2.4.2, gmp-4.3.2, and mpc-0.8.1, instead of the newer versions above.
4) setting the PWDCMD environment variable to an automounter-aware pwd 
command (pawd).

None of these things resolved the issue.  I'm out of ideas for now, so I 
posted the question on Super User:
http://superuser.com/questions/592552/bootstrap-error-while-compiling-gcc-4-8-0
If the answer comes up here then I'll post it there and vice versa.

Doug

On 2013-05-06 6:34 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 6 May 2013 18:09, Douglas B. Staple wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm getting bootstrap errors while trying to install GCC and could use some
> > help.  I'm trying to compile my own copy of GCC from source, in my home
> > directory on a shared system (cluster).  The cluster has GCC 4.4.3 that I'm
> > using to bootstrap the compilation. I wrote this little script to show what
> > I'm doing and to help in debugging:
> >
> > # Installation parameters
> > gccver=4.8.0
> > gmpver=5.1.1
> > mpcver=1.0.1
> > mpfrver=3.1.2
> > prefix=$HOME/local
> > langs=c,c++
> >
> > # Download source
> > wget ftp://gnu.mirror.iweb.com/gnu/gcc/gcc-${gccver}/gcc-${gccver}.tar.gz
> > wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-${gmpver}.tar.bz2
> > wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpc/mpc-${mpcver}.tar.gz
> > wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpfr/mpfr-${mpfrver}.tar.gz
> >
> > # Unpack source
> > tar -xzvf gcc-${gccver}.tar.gz
> > tar -xjvf gmp-${gmpver}.tar.bz2
> > tar -xzvf mpc-${mpcver}.tar.gz
> > tar -xzvf mpfr-${mpfrver}.tar.gz
> >
> > # Move dependency source directories into gcc source directory
> > mv gmp-${gmpver} gcc-${gccver}/gmp
> > mv mpc-${mpcver} gcc-${gccver}/mpc
> > mv mpfr-${mpfrver} gcc-${gccver}/mpfr
> >
> > # create a build directory and change to it
> > mkdir objdir
> > pushd objdir
> >
> > # configure, make, check, and install gcc:
> > ../gcc-${gccver}/configure --prefix=${prefix} --enable-languages=${langs}
> > make -j 16
> > make install
> >
> > # return to the original directory
> > popd
> >
> > The above fails during 'make' with the error: "Bootstrap comparison
> > failure!"  I've attached the last few pages of output as error.txt. If
> > anyone has any suggestions then I'd be really happy to hear them.  Also, let
> > me know what other information I can provide that would be relevant.
> Your procedure looks fine, I'm not sure why you get the bootstrap
> comparison errors.
>
> Does objdir definitely not exist before you start?
>
> Have you tried without -j16 ?  It certainly should work with parallel
> builds, but it could be worth checking that there isn't some problem
> caused by that in your environment.