Status of ga68 in recent O/S package systems, and local builds

[Pietro Monteiro]

On Wed, May 27, 2026, at 1:35 PM, Pietro Monteiro wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2026, at 2:12 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>> This note reports O/S package systems that now include ga68:


>> A gcc-17 build attempt on OpenBSD 7.9, released 19-May-2026, failed to
>> build ga68: the native gcc compiler is version 15.2.0 (a big jump from
>> the gcc-8.4.0 on OpenBSD 7.8), but alas, there is no corresponding g++
>> compiler.  Attempts to use clang-19, clang-20, and clang-21 to build
>> compilers from the gcc-17-20260517 snapshot on that system have all
>> failed; it appears that a version of a genuine older g++ compiler is
>> needed to build a current g++.
>
> It should be possible to use clang to build GCC. I'll try it on an
> OpenBSD host in the cfarm project machines and report back.

My build failed too, and in a weird way. With both clang and gcc/g++ 15
 It looks like others have noticed it too:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97527

> pietro
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