About the GCC 4.2 update

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

>> So, if you track -CURRENT and want to upgrade to beyond the GCC 4.2
>> import, make sure you keep backups or you'll be sorry...
>
> hmmm.  is this why i am having problems with sept snapshot iso?

> # gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]
>
> cc -c -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=itanium2 -DIN_GCC
> -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED  -DHAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT
> -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/gcclibs/include
> -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/gcc/config
> -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/gcc -I.
> -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../usr.bin/cc/cc_tools  - 
> fvisibility=hidden
> -DHIDE_EXPORTS -fPIC -fexceptions -D__GLIBC__=3 -DElfW=__ElfN -o
> unwind-dw2.o /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/gcc/unwind-dw2.c
> /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1: error:  
> bad
> value (itanium2) for -march= switch
> /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1: error:  
> bad
> value (itanium2) for -mtune= switch
> *** Error code 1

There's no -march option for ia64. There's only -mtune.
Valid values for -mtune are itanium and itanium2.
FYI,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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