GCC/11.2.0 does not compile on newer OS with glibc 2.34 due to M4/1.4.18 #14727
Description
Bootstrapping GCC/11.2.0 does not work on a Ubuntu 22.04 container with a new glibc version 2.34 due to a problem in M4/1.4.18. M4/1.4.18 is currently a dependency for bootstrapping:
$ eb GCC-11.2.0.eb --robot -D
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/pep8.py:110: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
EXTRANEOUS_WHITESPACE_REGEX = re.compile(r'[[({] | []}),;:]')
== Temporary log file in case of crash /tmp/eb-6_zucurc/easybuild-r1q36chv.log
Dry run: printing build status of easyconfigs and dependencies
CFGS=/easybuild/software/EasyBuild/20220114-dev/easybuild/easyconfigs
* [ ] $CFGS/m/M4/M4-1.4.19.eb (module: M4/1.4.19)
* [ ] $CFGS/z/zlib/zlib-1.2.11.eb (module: zlib/1.2.11)
* [ ] $CFGS/m/M4/M4-1.4.18.eb (module: M4/1.4.18)
* [ ] $CFGS/b/Bison/Bison-3.7.6.eb (module: Bison/3.7.6)
* [ ] $CFGS/b/Bison/Bison-3.5.3.eb (module: Bison/3.5.3)
* [ ] $CFGS/f/flex/flex-2.6.4.eb (module: flex/2.6.4)
* [ ] $CFGS/b/binutils/binutils-2.37.eb (module: binutils/2.37)
* [ ] $CFGS/g/GCCcore/GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: GCCcore/11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/z/zlib/zlib-1.2.11-GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: zlib/1.2.11-GCCcore-11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/h/help2man/help2man-1.48.3-GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: help2man/1.48.3-GCCcore-11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/m/M4/M4-1.4.19-GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: M4/1.4.19-GCCcore-11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/b/Bison/Bison-3.7.6-GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: Bison/3.7.6-GCCcore-11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/f/flex/flex-2.6.4-GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: flex/2.6.4-GCCcore-11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/b/binutils/binutils-2.37-GCCcore-11.2.0.eb (module: binutils/2.37-GCCcore-11.2.0)
* [ ] $CFGS/g/GCC/GCC-11.2.0.eb (module: GCC/11.2.0)
The error is
In file included from /usr/include/signal.h:328,
from ./signal.h:52,
from c-stack.c:49:
c-stack.c:55:26: error: missing binary operator before token "("
55 | #elif HAVE_LIBSIGSEGV && SIGSTKSZ < 16384
| ^~~~~~~~
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1910: c-stack.o] Error 1
Test report: https://gist.github.com/cea16239037b480f4c37c8ffcee67be9
Related discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2021-03/msg00000.html
Patch (04-fix-sigstksz.patch) for M4/1.4.18 is available in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/m4/1.4.18-5ubuntu1/m4_1.4.18-5ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz
Alternative solution would be to use M4/1.4.19.
System info:
$ eb --show-system-info
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/pep8.py:110: FutureWarning: Possible nested set at position 1
EXTRANEOUS_WHITESPACE_REGEX = re.compile(r'[[({] | []}),;:]')
System information (zen2-ubuntu-eb):
* OS:
-> name: Ubuntu
-> type: Linux
-> version: 22.04
-> platform name: x86_64-unknown-linux
* CPU:
-> vendor: AMD
-> architecture: x86_64
-> family: AMD
-> arch name: zen2
-> model: AMD EPYC 7452 32-Core Processor
-> speed: 2350.0
-> cores: 128
-> features: 3dnowprefetch,abm,adx,aes,aperfmperf,apic,arat,avic,avx,avx2,bmi1,bmi2,bpext,cat_l3,cdp_l3,clflush,clflushopt,clwb,clzero,cmov,cmp_legacy,constant_tsc,cpb,cpuid,cqm,cqm_llc,cqm_mbm_local,cqm_mbm_total,cqm_occup_llc,cr8_legacy,cx16,cx8,de,decodeassists,extapic,extd_apicid,f16c,flushbyasid,fma,fpu,fsgsbase,fxsr,fxsr_opt,ht,hw_pstate,ibpb,ibrs,ibs,irperf,lahf_lm,lbrv,lm,mba,mca,mce,misalignsse,mmx,mmxext,monitor,movbe,msr,mtrr,mwaitx,nonstop_tsc,nopl,npt,nrip_save,nx,osvw,overflow_recov,pae,pat,pausefilter,pclmulqdq,pdpe1gb,perfctr_core,perfctr_llc,perfctr_nb,pfthreshold,pge,pni,popcnt,pse,pse36,rdpid,rdrand,rdseed,rdt_a,rdtscp,rep_good,sep,sev,sha_ni,skinit,smap,smca,sme,smep,ssbd,sse,sse2,sse4_1,sse4_2,sse4a,ssse3,stibp,succor,svm,svm_lock,syscall,tce,topoext,tsc,tsc_scale,umip,v_vmsave_vmload,vgif,vmcb_clean,vme,vmmcall,wbnoinvd,wdt,x2apic,xgetbv1,xsave,xsavec,xsaveerptr,xsaveopt,xsaves
* software:
-> glibc version: 2.34
-> Python binary: /usr/bin/python3
-> Python version: 3.9.9