Re: GUB won't finish make bootstrap

[Carl Sorensen]

On 2/17/12 10:34 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:53:35PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I guess that's possible, but the gcc in GUB is 4.1.1, which I don't
>>think
>> > had that code generation bug.
>> 
>> It didn't, but don't you need to bootstrap?  I obviously don't know GUB.
>
>GUB first builds a "light" version of the toolchain, then uses
>that "light" version to build the "full" version.  I have a vague
>recollection that the "light" version is called -core.  If that's
>true, then GUB should (with emphasis on /should/) be using
>gcc-core to build gcc.
>
>That said, I've never been able to build GUB on anything other
>than ubuntu 10.04.  Are you using 11.10 ?  I've definitely failed
>on that OS.

Ubuntu 10.04, as implemented in lilydev.  I've done it both as a VM and as
a separate install.  Both worked in the past; both fail now.

I think that I will create another VM tonight and do a fresh install to
see if that works.

Thanks,

Carl