Re: Building --with-native-compilation on Ubuntu 18.04 LT

["H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>> I'd like to compile Emacs with the --with-native-compilation support.
>> But configure was complaining about a missing libgccjit executable.  I
>> thought it a good idea to install libgccjit with the same version number
>> as the installed gcc: libgccjit-7-dev.
>>
>> But now configure is complaining that libgccjit can't compile a test
>> program.
>>
>> The only hint I found is on StackExchange with a recipe for Ubuntu 18.04
>> using gcc-10.  Do you know if it is really necessary to install such a
>> new version of gcc?  (A problem is that gcc-10 is not readily available
>> in the Ubuntu repo.)
>
> The problem with gcc 7 is known ant the author recommends gcc 9 or
> newer:

Thanks a lot Óscar :-) I'll immediately try gcc-9!

> https://akrl.sdf.org/gccemacs.html#orgde56122

> It is a bit puzzling that there is no mention of native-comp / libgccjit
> on INSTALL.

The documentation will grow (I hope)..

Have a good time

     Dieter
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H. Dieter Wilhelm
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