bug#59340: 29.0.50; Latest Emacs from master gives various native compilation errors

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:08:36 +0600
>> From:  Akib Azmain Turja via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> 
>> I tried to upgrade to the commit
>> 1772d88c1fa811eee235ba9b8b7584bb000ac293 (made yesterday).  But after
>> installing it, I tried to run to and got various sorts of native
>> compilation errors.  I can at least use it the terminal, but starting
>> with EXWM makes it crash (I don't who is the culprit: EXWM or GTK+).
>> 
>> This also happened to me before when I tried to upgrade, but I didn't do
>> anything, because I'm lazy.
>> 
>> I have reverted to my old Emacs (this) after I encountered the bug.
>> 
>> I clearly remember two things appearing repeatedly in the *Warning*
>> buffer (in terminal), the first one "libgccjit.so: error: error invoking
>> gcc driver", and second one "FILE: Error: Internal native compiler error
>> failed to compile."
>> 
>> The *Async-native-compile-log* buffer says that ld can't find
>> crtbeginS.o, -lgcc, -lgcc_s and -lgcc_s again.  And the message again:
>> "libgccjit.so: error: error invoking gcc driver".
>
> Does this happen _after_ you build Emacs?  That is, you are saying
> that the *.eln files produced as part of the Emacs build were compiled
> successfully, but when you then start the Emacs you built, it is
> unable to perform any native compilation?

Yes, Emacs builds fine.  The problem occurs at runtime.

>
> In any case, I don't see it here.
>
> Could it be that there was some change in your GCC/Binutis/libgccjit
> installation in parallel with updating from the Emacs Git repository?
> That's what the error messages seem to convey.
>
>
>

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