Re: How is anyone building any ports?

Jason Downs <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

> How is anyone building any ports? It seems like half the ports tree
> depends on LLVM, which depends on gcc-4.9. gcc-4.9 doesn’t compile by
> default, and once you build it without ada, LLVM still doesn’t build. It
> looks like someone added -mlongcall to the CFLAGS at some point,
> presumably to make it build, but it seems like it also needs a linker
> which does –gc-sections, and ours does not.

I disabled --gc-sections in binutils-2.17 because the code that backed
it was broken; I doubt that lack of --gc-sections is what kills us.

IIRC src/lib/csu and lack of support for some relocations in
binutils-2.17 were the offending problems.

> (It’s still/once again failing with a relocation overflow.)

What's the error, now?

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