bug#63523: 29.0.90; Failing to find -lgcc when running emacsclient

[Kaushal Modi]

This issue happened to me again, but now I know what causes it.

- I was building Emacs from a terminal with gcc 9.3.0 loaded.

- I was launching emacsclient from a terminal with gcc 9.1.0 loaded.

I have libgccjit.so available for both gcc 9.1.0 and 9.3.0. But the version mismatch gave the "gcc not found" error.

Note to self: Ensure that the gcc versions used for building and running emacs are the exact same (incl the minor versions).

On the same note, is it possible for Emacs to give a more informative error that says that libgcc of X.Y.Z version was not found?

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Kaushal Modi

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 12:10 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 14:46:48 -0400
> Cc: 63523@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I just rebuilt emacs with --bootstrap now this error is gone!
>
> > emacs --version               
> GNU Emacs 29.0.91
> Development version c18f9f155f6a on emacs-29 branch; build date 2023-05-15.
>
> > emacsclient --version
> emacsclient 29.0.91
>
> It looks like I landed on an intermediate commit while this issue existed around 05/12. But as of the
> c18f9f155f6a commit, this issue is gone.
>
> Thank you for looking into this!
>
> This issue can be closed.

Thanks, done.