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coreutils instalation failure x86_64

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From: ripspin-004 <at> yahoo.com.au
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: coreutils instalation failure x86_64
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:38:49 +0000 (UTC)

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Failure at make

output from configure and make attached

uname -a
Linux xenial64-sda1 4.9.58 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 13 15:54:01 GMT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

followed:

\cd  /GS/pool/common-apps

 git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils

 cd coreutils

 git submodule foreach git pull origin master

 git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib

 ./bootstrap

./configure -quiet

make

Regards ripspin

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From: ripspin-004 <at> yahoo.com.au
To: 58163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: coreutils instalation failure x86_64
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 15:21:47 +0000 (UTC)

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here is the config.log file generated

regards ripspin

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Message #11 received at 58163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: ripspin-004 <at> yahoo.com.au, 58163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58163: coreutils instalation failure x86_64
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:33:01 -0700

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On 9/29/22 04:38, ripspin-004--- via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
>   git submodule foreach git pull origin master
> 
>   git commit -m 'build: update gnulib submodule to latest' gnulib
> 
>   ./bootstrap
> 
> ./configure -quiet
> 
> make

That's a bit too terse, unfortunately. What distro and compiler are you 
using? Since I cannot reproduce the problem on Fedora 36 x86-64, we'll 
need more details.

I suggest sending all the output, interleaved rather than separating 
stdout from stderr, and using the following three commands instead of 
the last two commands mentioned above:

   ./configure
   make
   make V=1

The last "make" should retry the failed compilation, but more verbosely.

For comparison I am attaching the compressed output of the above 
commands on Fedora 36, which has gcc (GCC) 12.2.1 20220819 (Red Hat 
12.2.1-2)
, and where the build is successful.

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Message #16 received at 58163-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: ripspin-004 <at> yahoo.com.au
Cc: 58163-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#58163: coreutils instalation failure x86_64
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 15:26:14 -0700

Thanks for sending the extra data. Oh, I see you are running GCC 5.4. 
You have run into a GCC bug that I just now filed here:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107116

This bug was in GCC 5 and is still present in GCC 12.

To work around the GCC bug, please use './configure 
--disable-gcc-warnings' instead of plain './configure'. Or (and this may 
be simpler) please use the latest coreutils release from 
<https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/> rather than trying to bootstrap. 
Another possibility is to upgrade to GCC 7 (2017) or later, as these GCC 
versions have __builtin_sub_overflow which means the code in question 
will not be compiled.

I doubt whether we should modify Gnulib or coreutils to work around the 
GCC bug, as we expect developers who are bootstrapping to use up-to-date 
tools and GCC 6 is not up-to-date. I'm therefore closing the coreutils 
bug report.

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