GCC 4.3.5-based GPC fails to compile under Fedora 16

[John L. Ries]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, John L. Ries wrote:

> 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.
>
It works!

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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
>>
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