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Old 04-27-2005, 01:04 PM   #1
chakkaradeepcc
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Angry Binutils Error!


hi all,

am building LFS 6 and i have a strange error..........i have just started LFS and in Building Temporary System,Chapter 5, Installing Binutils...am getting error when we do,
"make configure-host".

My,
"../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls " gave the result

**************************configure script for configure****************************************
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... (cached) yes
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... yes
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gnatbind... no
checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... (cached) no
checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... (cached) cmp --ignore-initial=16 $$f1 $$f2
checking for correct version of gmp.h... yes
checking for mpf_init in -lgmp... yes
checking for bison... (cached) bison
checking for bison... (cached) bison -y
checking for gm4... (cached) m4
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for makeinfo... (cached) makeinfo
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no
checking for ar... (cached) ar
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no
checking for as... (cached) as
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no
checking for dlltool... (cached) dlltool
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld... no
checking for ld... (cached) ld
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no
checking for nm... (cached) nm
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no
checking for windres... (cached) windres
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... (cached) objcopy
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... no
checking for objdump... (cached) objdump
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no
checking for ar... (cached) ar
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no
checking for as... (cached) as
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no
checking for dlltool... (cached) dlltool
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld... no
checking for ld... (cached) ld
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no
checking for nm... (cached) nm
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no
checking for windres... (cached) windres
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking if symbolic links between directories work... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
**************************configure script for configure****************************************

and next i gave ,
"make configure-host"
i got this error...

**************************configure script for "make configure-host"**************************
Configuring in libiberty
configure: loading cache ./config.cache
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for perl... perl
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... ar
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [configure-libiberty] Error 1
**************************configure script for "make configure-host"**************************

Everything is compiled outside th sources directory of binutils.......

i wud be happy if some one could help me out....

thanks in advance...

with regards,
C.C.Chakkaradeep
 
Old 04-27-2005, 02:53 PM   #2
rjlee
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This seems to be suggesting that you have installed a cross-compiler, i.e. one that compiles for a different processor, by default.

1) Run the test by hand and see what happens. Create a simple test program in /tmp/test:
Code:
cd /tmp
echo "int main() {}" > test.c
gcc test.c -o test
./test
2) Check your processor settings match your GCC defaults:
Code:
uname -a
echo | cpp -dM
3) Try re-running configure with this option, which should force it to use the right processor (assuming you have a suitable compiler installed):
Code:
--host=`uname -i`
 
Old 04-28-2005, 04:53 AM   #3
chakkaradeepcc
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hi all,

i think i scrwed up my host system 'ld' before..........i was trying some new experiments :-) which should have lead to this extent!..........anyway thanks rjlee...ur reply helped me to find this out,thanks friend. :-)

with regards,
C.C.Chakkaradeep
 
  


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