[Ohrrpgce] Can't compile 64-bit hspeak on the nightly build vm

[James Paige]

Today I will try upgrading Debian on a copy of the 64-bit VM,
 Hopefully that will resolve it.

---
James


On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> -no-pie is actually passed by SConscript.  I can't find any mention in my
> emails about a -no-pie problem on debian. The problem we had was that
> -no-pie was supported (nor necessary) for clang on OSX.
>
> The -no-pie flag was added in r9542:
> """
> scons: Fix hspeak builds on Arch Linux and others where gcc defaults to
> PIE
>
> The Euphoria 4.1 builds we recommend (and which are also used by the Arch
> opeeuphoria package on AUR) haven't been built for PIE
> """
> Apparently this flag is also necessary on (recent?) Debian and Ubuntu, as
> they also default to PIE.
>
> It's not clear, but from searching around it appears that this flag used
> to be called -nopie until gcc 6 switched to -no-pie. So try that. I have
> the man page for gcc 4.8 here, and it doesn't say either way.
> Also, there is -fno-pie which is a compiler flag while -no-pie is a linker
> flag (also understood by gcc). So you could also try that and see whether
> it works. (I assume that -no-pie passed to gcc implies -fno-pie)
>
> On 16 December 2017 at 12:32, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> So now I remember why I have the 32-bit version of Euphoria installed on
>> the Linux nightly build machine.
>>
>> The hspeak build fails because gcc doesn't understand --no-pie
>>
>>
>> gcc -o /home/james/src/ohr/wip/hspeak init-.o hspeak.o main-.o hspeak_0.o
>> hspeak_1.o hspeak_2.o hspeak_3.o hspeak_4.o hsspiffy.o file.o sort.o get.o
>> graphics.o machine.o math.o types.o unicode.o ucstypes.o io_with_unicode.o
>> 0achine.o memory.o dll.o  /usr/share/euphoria/bin/eu.a -m64 -ldl -lm
>> -lpthread -no-pie
>> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-no-pie'
>> hspeak.mak:97: recipe for target '/home/james/src/ohr/wip/hspeak' failed
>> make: *** [/home/james/src/ohr/wip/hspeak] Error 1
>> make: Leaving directory '/home/james/src/ohr/wip/build/hspeak'
>> scons: done building targets.
>> james at ixrat:~/src/ohr/wip$ euc -v
>> Euphoria to C Translator v4.1.0 development
>>    64-bit Linux, Using System Memory
>>    Revision Date: 2015-02-02 14:18:53, Id: 5861:57179171dbed
>> james at ixrat:~/src/ohr/wip$ gcc --version
>> gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
>> Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
>> PURPOSE.
>>
>>
>> I am wondering if the easiest way to resolve this might be to upgrade the
>> virtual machine from Debian 8.x to 9.x and hopefully get a version of gcc
>> that does not have this problem.
>>
>> For now, I am leaving the 64-bit version of euphoria installed on the vm,
>> so the 64-bit nightly builds are going to remain broken until I have
>> figured out a solution.
>>
>> ---
>> James
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