Catch 22 compiling ppl: Internal compiler error: Illegal instruction

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 22 November 2012 19:33, Ángel González wrote:
> I am hitting an «internal compiler error: Illegal instruction» when
> trying to compile ppl-0.11 on arm with gcc 4.1.3 (20080414).
>
> This is almost surely fixed in newer GCC, the problem is that I was
> building ppl precisely for compiling the latest gcc (4.7.2) [to overcome
> a different gcc 'internal compiler error' bug].
>
> So, what are my options now to get the non-bugged gcc?
> Are you familiar with this error? Is there some easy workaround which
> could be applied to ppl source code to bypass it?

PPL is not required to build GCC, so just build GCC 4.7.2 without PPL.

Then, if you need a graphite-enabled GCC build PPL and rebuild GCC
using the 4.7.2 build you've just done.