On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 7:51 PM Peter Bergner <bergner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/25/19 5:05 PM, Brian Groose wrote: > > I am trying to build gcc 8.3.0 on linux ppc64. I have successfully > > built 5.3.0 without issue on this machine. When I build 8.3.0, > > however, I hit this error: > [snip] > > In file included from > > /root/gcc/act-gcc-8.3.0-sandbox/gcc-8.3.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:56: > > /root/gcc/act-gcc-8.3.0-sandbox/gcc-8.3.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c: In > > function ‘__multi3’: > > /root/gcc/act-gcc-8.3.0-sandbox/gcc-8.3.0/libgcc/libgcc2.h:203:20: > > internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > > #define __NDW(a,b) __ ## a ## ti ## b > > This seems familiar and I think it had to do with a broken installed > header file. Since GCC 6 and GCC 7 built successfully, can you use > one of those compilers to build GCC 8? If so, that would lead me > to think the system compiler has issues. Yes, I saw similar PRs around Solaris long ago and some Sun patch breaking things because it updated libm or something. gcc 6.5.0 builds successfully, and when I used that to build 8.3.0, it worked! Thank you for the suggestion! It seems like an issue with my freshly installed host, so I will leave it at that. I appreciate the quick responses, Peter and Segher!
