fortran and apple rantings...

[Robert Lipe]

Aldy Hernandez wrote:

> in any case, i'm trying to bootstrap a sane compiler with the apple
> sources, and apple's hacked up gcc complains at the following on the
> apple sources (f/global.c):

Not knowing anything about the Apple specifics, this sounds wrong and
is a common pitfall on the lists.

If you're _bootstrapping_ the compiler, you typed 'make bootstrap' and
"apple's hacked up gcc" should be used to build cc1 and friends and then
_that_ compiler (which does know about the designated initializer thing)
should be used to build the non-C languages.  So one of those two things
didn't happen.

Back in the old days, there were words in the equivalent of
install/build.html that using anything other than the bootstrap target
to build the lanaguages other than C was a recepie for failure.  I can't
readily spot those words and, unfortunately, we've never seen fit to
enforce it in the code.  So people fall into this trap regularly.

RJL