Changeset f0dd071

Timestamp:

03/08/2023 05:42:57 PM (14 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

827154b

Parents:

01f42a8

Message:

Add a patch to fix gcc-go version string

Files:

• general/prog/gcc.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/prog/gcc.xml

@@ -116 +116 @@
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
-<!--
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
     <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
       <listitem>
         <para>
-          Required patch for building against glibc-2.36:
-          <ulink url="&patch-root;/gcc-&gcc-version;-glibc_2.36-1.patch"/>
+          Optional patch when adding Go to the desired language list:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/gcc-&gcc-version;-fix_go_version-1.patch"/>
         </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
--->
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GCC Dependencies</bridgehead>
 
@@ -172 +172 @@
       <command>./configure</command> options below.
     </para>
-<!--
-    <para>
-      First fix a problem with glibc-2.36:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-version;-glibc_2.36-1.patch</userinput></screen>
--->
+
+    <para>
+      Some packages checks on the phrase <literal>gccgo</literal> in the output
+      of <command>go version</command> to see which kind of Go compiler is
+      installed (gcc-go or golang). The absence of <literal>gccgo</literal> in
+      that string makes them to assume the compiler is the golang which is wrong.
+      If Go isn't in the list of desired languages, this patch can be skipped
+      while it does not harm if applied anyway. Fix the Go part of gcc to show
+      a valid version string when calling <command>go version</command> by
+      applying a patch:
+    </para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-version;-fix_go_version-1.patch</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       Install <application>GCC</application> by running the following commands:

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -43 +43 @@
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[thomas] - Add a patch to fix gcc-go version string (part of gcc-12.2.0).</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>March 7th, 2023</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[renodr] - Update to SCons-4.5.1. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;17752">#17752</ulink>.</para>