Re: [Lynx-dev] Build failures on hppa architectures after update from 2.9.0dev.9 to 2.9.0dev.10

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@his.com>
| To: "Mouse" <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG>
| Cc: "lynx-dev" <lynx-dev@nongnu.org>
| Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2021 9:18:24 AM
| Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Build failures on hppa architectures after update 
from 2.9.0dev.9 to 2.9.0dev.10

| On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 08:54:47AM -0400, Mouse wrote:
|> > The relevant compile error seems to be this:
|> 
|> > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H [...] ../../../WWW/Library/Implementation/HTMLGen.c
|> > /tmp/cc3NiXQT.s: Assembler messages:
|> > /tmp/cc3NiXQT.s:18552: Error: Invalid Shift/Extract/Deposit Condition.
|> > /tmp/cc3NiXQT.s:18552: Error: Undefined absolute constant: '.loc'.
|> > /tmp/cc3NiXQT.s:18552: Error: Field out of range [0..31] (-1).
|> > /tmp/cc3NiXQT.s:18552: Error: Invalid operands
|> > make[2]: *** [makefile:245: SGML.o] Error 1
|> 
|> You compiled a .c file and got invalid assembly?  Unless the .c
|> contains inline assembly - and I can't see why HTMLGen.c would - I have
|> trouble calling that anything but a bug in the compiler.  (Of course,
|> lynx may want to try to work around the bug; that's a separate
|> question.)
| 
| yes - if it were something that I could reproduce, I'd be checking that.
| But "hppa" (HP PA-RISC, I guess) is out of my reach.
| 
| (aside from suggesting that they turn off optimization, no help)

Between the last-successful and first-failed builds, gcc is updated:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=lynx&arch=hppa&ver=2.9.0dev.9-2&stamp=1629041931&raw=0

checking version of gcc... 10.2.1

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=lynx&arch=hppa&ver=2.9.0dev.10-1&stamp=1635443140&raw=0

checking version of gcc... 11.2.0

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