On Mon, 8 Sep 2025, Shiva Subramanian via Gcc-help wrote:
Hi team,
I'm looking for some help - as suggested I successfully built GCC on Debian and gave it a shot on HPE Nonstop OSS. According to ./config.guess, my system was nsv-tandem-nskL25 so I had to run configure like below -
../configure \
--build=nsv-tandem-nskL25 \
--host=nsv-tandem-nskL25 \
--target=nsv-tandem-nskL25 \
--enable-languages=c,c++ \
--disable-multilib \
--disable-shared \
--prefix=$HOME/gcc-install \
CC="nscc -Wstd=c17" \
CXX="nscc -Wstd=c++17" \
LD=xld
The CC, CXX & LD flags are my system specific - I also wanted to build GCC for C & C++ first before considering other languages. But it seems to fail at the below make step irrespective of what I do.
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/shiva/gcc/build/libiberty'
if [ x"-fPIC" != x ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then \
mkdir pic; \
else true; fi
touch stamp-picdir
if [ x"" != x ] && [ ! -d noasan ]; then \
mkdir noasan; \
else true; fi
touch stamp-noasandir
if [ x"-fPIC" != x ]; then \
nscc -Wstd=c17 -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -I. -I../../libiberty/../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC ../../libiberty/regex.c -o pic/regex.o; \
else true; fi
nscc: illegal option -- f
Makefile:1241: recipe for target 'regex.o' failed
make[3]: *** [regex.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/shiva/gcc/build/libiberty'
Makefile:14374: recipe for target 'all-stage1-libiberty' failed
make[2]: *** [all-stage1-libiberty] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/shiva/gcc/build'
Makefile:25592: recipe for target 'stage1-bubble' failed
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/shiva/gcc/build'
Makefile:1105: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
/home/shiva/gcc/build:
Unfortunately, our C compiler doesn't under the -fPIC flag - I've
tried exporting PICFLAG variable as empty before configure or run it
as a param to Make but neither worked. I wouldn't want to update the
libiberty/Makefile manually so would appreciate any ideas.
I would work around that by wrapping your compiler in a script
that ignoes -fPIC (or replaces it with -fpic or an option
which passes it to your assembler ...)
--
Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK
andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
