[m-rev.] Failure to build Mercury rotd-2025-08-20 and rotd-2025-08-21

[Volker Wysk]

Am Dienstag, dem 26.08.2025 um 17:05 +1000 schrieb Julien Fischer:
> Hi Volker,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 15:20, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> > Good morning.
> > 
> > I've tracked the problem to the call of compiler/mercury_compile, by
> > mmake,
> > which calls gmake, which calls mercury_compile. I get an immediate crash
> > when calling it without any arguments:
> 
> In the configure.log you sent, there is the following:
> 
>     configure: loading site script /usr/share/site/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>     checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... no
>     checking for gcc... gcc
>     checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>     checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>     checking for suffix of executables...
>     checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>     checking for suffix of object files... o
>     checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>     checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>     checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>     checking what the C compiler type really is... gcc
>     checking what the gcc version is... 15_1_1
>     checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>     checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Why does your system think the host system type is i686-pc-linux-gnu?
> Are you (attempting) to build an i686 cross-compiler on x86_64?

No, that isn't my intention. I've forgotten why I put the responsible
configure option there. I've been using my shell scripts for a long time and
they have always worked...

I've started a new build, without that option.

Bye,
V.