Re: Need help compiling the JIT

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----- Op 4 jun 2021 om 16:50 schreef Piotr Klibert piotrklibert@fastmail.com:

> 2. I encountered some problems compiling GST - in the code generated from
> 'genbc-impl.y' apparently. Which build tools versions I should include in the
> bug report in this case, and also in general?


This depends on the problem.

Can you give an indication please what compile problem you encountered ?

I can confirm that the build tools and PATH settings are important;
for example to succesfully build I have to use  NM='/usr/gnu/bin/nm'
and the build fails with weird messages in the case of the auto-detected 
/usr/bin/nm on my system.

This requires some puzzling and investigation ...

I would also like to draw your attention to an extremely simple but very 
important patch,
posted here by Tino Calancha :

Date:   Thu Mar 25 15:46:18 2021 +0100

     * main.c (long_options): Option "file" requires an argument

diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index f28aad3e..a4a9128b 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static const struct option long_options[] = {
    {"core-dump", 0, 0, 'c'},
    {"declaration-trace", 0, 0, 'D'},
    {"execution-trace", 0, 0, 'E'},
-  {"file", 0, 0, 'f'},
+  {"file", 1, 0, 'f'},


Hopefully that *important* patch gets added to GNU smalltalk 3.3 or 3.2.6 !

Perhaps you can try to contact Steve Byrne (sbb@gnu.org) and Paolo Bonzini 
(bonzini@gnu.org)
or Holger Hans Peter Freyther  <holger@freyther.de>

Holger Freyther and Paolo Bonzini sometimes help on this list, and are around.

Regards,
David Stes