GCC 4.3.5-based GPC fails to compile under Fedora 16

[John L. Ries]

I indeed used a symlink (as I've always done with the p directory tree). 
I'll try again tonight, replacing the symlink with a copy and hopefully, 
that will clear up the issue.

Many thanks to Waldek.

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

> John L. Ries wrote:
>>
>> I downloaded hebisch-gpc-8249f1b.tar.gz from
>> https://github.com/hebisch/gpc and gcc-core-4.3.5.tar.bz2 from my friendly
>> neighborhood mirror, extracted the source, created the soft links as
>> instructed, applied the patch (gcc-4.3.5.diff) and configured as follows:
>>
>> ../gcc-4.3.5/configure --enable-languages=all --disable-mapped-location \
>>                         --program-suffix=435
>>
>> After much compiling, I get the following:
>>
>> cat: ../../../gcc-4.3.5/libgpc/../gcc/BASE-VER: No such file or directory
>> make[2]: Entering directory
> ...
>> cat: ../../../gcc-4.3.5/libgpc/../gcc/BASE-VER: No such file or directory
>> make[3]: Entering directory
>> `/usr/local/src/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgpc'
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target
>> `../../../gcc-4.3.5/libgpc/../gcc/p/rts/Makefile.in', needed by
>> `p/rts/Makefile'.  Stop.
> ...
>> The question is, how do I proceed... or more specifically, what is
>> BASE_VER and how do I create it?
>
> BASE_VER is part of gcc source.  Did you copy the `libgpc'
> subdirectory as instructed?  If you used symliks for `libgpc',
> then the path `../../../gcc-4.3.5/libgpc/../gcc/BASE-VER'
> will lead to wrong place.  Normally this symlinks resolves
> to `../../../gcc-4.3.5/gcc/BASE-VER' which is present in
> distributed gcc sources.
>
> --
>                              Waldek Hebisch
> hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl
>