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Subject: Re: Building v8 on FreeBSD with clang
From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To: Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem building google v8 on FreeBSD with clang.  I get
> this error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
> invocation)
> gmake[1]: *** [/root/v8/out/x64.release/cctest] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/v8/out'
> gmake: *** [x64.release] Error 2
>
> I needed to use gmake rather than make, and I added the following to use clang:
> setenv CC /usr/bin/clang
> setenv CXX /usr/bin/clang++
> setenv GYP_DEFINES "clang=1"

setenv LINK /usr/bin/clang++

(as grokked from the v8 ports makefile - there are also patches in
there to fix building on fbsd10 and adding pthread to the libraries to
link to, which may help you next...)

Cheers

Tom