Re: In stage1 bootstrap assembler claims Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `/'

On 4/10/26 03:11, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 4/10/26 3:45 AM, Dennis Clarke via Gcc-help wrote:
> 
>>>> centauri# cat alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/libgcc/qrnnd.vis
>>>>           .hidden ../../../gcc-8.5.0/libgcc/config/alpha/qrnnd.S
>>>>           .hidden __udiv_qrnnd
> 
>>> The slash is what it considers junk. It says so in the error message.
> 
>> Yes ... and I SEE THAT. So what is wrong here? Why does the bootstrap
>> just fail? Is this the end of the line and no way forwards or around or
>> what? There has to be a path forwards somewhere in this mess.
> 
> It's trying to declare a hidden symbol with a path name.
> 
> Path names should not become symbol names, so I suspect a that this file 
> is generated, and this generation step does not adequately process the 
> input data (e.g. because it uses objdump or nm output to get a list of 
> symbols, and then uses a regex to filter them, and the regex for some 
> reason also matches something it shouldn't.
> 
> (Disclaimer: I haven't actually looked at what is happening here, but 
> that sounds like the most plausible explanation)
> 
>     Simon

Thank you kind Sir !

Some other people have gathered around and are involved in this and a
really top notch computer scientist type guy ( the real thing ! ) says
to me that I am chewing way too much in one bite.

I was directed to :

https://github.com/just-buildsystem/bootstrappable-toolchain/blob/master/doc/BOOTSTRAP.md

There is a procedure wherein a person could bootstrap GCC on a toaster
if needed. I have gone back to just trying a trivial compile of nothing
more than GCC 4.7.4 with the very minimal configuration. Also with the
correct "infrastructure" bits for that version.

That has been working well up until the linker has a fit looking for the
dreaded crt1.o file :

configure:3664: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3686: 
/opt/bw/build/gcc-4.7.4_OpenBSD_alpha_21164.001/./gcc/xgcc 
-B/opt/bw/build/gcc-4.7.4_OpenBSD_alpha_21164.001/./gcc/ 
-B/opt/bw/imed/gcc4/alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/bin/ 
-B/opt/bw/imed/gcc4/alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/lib/ -isystem 
/opt/bw/imed/gcc4/alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/include -isystem 
/opt/bw/imed/gcc4/alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/sys-include    -g -O2 -mieee 
  conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

That is in the GNU OpenMP Runtime Library directory.

So now I am trying to figure out how to get past that hurdle.

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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken