https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112534
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jakub at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #5 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- The problem is that the toplevel configure (which is autoconf 2.69 as pretty much everything in gcc) uses the older AC_PROG_CC, which only checks for -std=gnu99 -std=c99 -c99 -AC99 -D_STDC_C99= -qlanglvl=extc99, not for -std=gnu11. And sets CC = @CC@ in toplevel Makefile.in to CC = gcc -std=gnu99 in toplevel objdir Makefile. That gets then passed to in-tree gettext (if present, I really don't think you need it on powerpc64-linux-gnu, perhaps download_prerequisities should be smarter and check if gettext is really needed) configure (where it just means CC is set there to gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu11 in gettext/Makefile), but worse is passed as CC="gcc -std=gnu99" in environment down when doing make all in the gettext subdir. I think that is something very similar to how CXX="g++ -std=c++11" is being passed down to in-tree isl build and breaks with recent isl which wants to use C++17 or what. Strangely, in my x86_64-linux toplevel Makefile I only have CC = gcc CXX = g++ -std=c++11 Dunno why it hasn't added -std=gnu99 there, maybe because that gcc already defaults to gnu17? Anyway, even when CC = gcc, I think that is passed down to make of the in-tree compilations. So, I guess if we don't want to switch to autoconf 2.70 or later (which I think is a lot of work), one possibility if we know gettext relies on C11 and newest ISL relies on C++17 (does it really?) would be to add explicit probing in configure for -std=gnu11 or -std=c11 and if that works, pass it down in the gettext build case; and similarly for isl. Maybe better not in CC/CXX but in CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS? The propagation of flags is done in $(HOST_EXPORTS) and for stage2+ $(POSTSTAGE1_HOST_EXPORTS). Looking around in Makefile.def, I see e.g. for gmp/mpfr we use extra_make_flags='AM_CFLAGS="-DNO_ASM"'; and for isl extra_make_flags='V=1'; Dunno if it would work to add for the gettext case extra_make_flags='CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) @C11_CFLAGS@"'; with configure check for C11_FLAGS or something similar.