Am Mon, 2002-03-11 um 19.10 schrieb Phil Edwards: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:28:29AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > Am Mon, 2002-03-11 um 00.12 schrieb Phil Edwards: > > > AC_PROG_CC tries to do something in > > > the "checking for C compiler default output" section which fails (cannot > > > create executables) when cross-compiling. If I edit the configure script > > > to ignore the error, I get two steps further: > > > > > > checking for C compiler default output... > > > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > > > checking whether we are cross compiling... yes > > > checking for executable suffix... configure: error: cannot compute EXEEXT: >cannot compile and link > [...] > > If building inside of the gcc-source-tree, there are various things > > which can go wrong. E.g. this check might be run at a time when the > > c-toolchain is incomplete and not yet usable. > > This looks like the problem, or at least one of the problems. See below. > > > > It could also be the side-effect of something else, e.g. the toplevel > > configure script setting the canonicalization names to something which > > is incompatible to autoconf-2.52 (--host etc.), rsp. the toolchain might > > also be broken itself (several gnu-cross-toolchains are in pretty bad > > shape.) > > Ugh.
<sigh> Unfortunately yes.cf. Joel Sherrill's reports on [EMAIL PROTECTED] </sigh> > > Could you please check the part of the config.log corresponding to the > > failing AC_PROG_CC for the actual reason of the breakdown you are > > observing? > > configure:1864: checking for C compiler default output > configure:1867: /home/pme/build/B/gcc/xgcc -B/home/pme/build/B/gcc/ -nostdinc -B/home/pme/build/B/powerpc-eabisim/newlib/ -isystem /home/pme/build/B/powerpc-eabisim/newlib/targ-include -isystem /home/pme/src/unified/newlib/libc/include -B/home/pme/build/install-2002-03-11-ppc/powerpc-eabisim/bin/ -B/home/pme/build/install-2002-03-11-ppc/powerpc-eabisim/lib/ -isystem /home/pme/build/install-2002-03-11-ppc/powerpc-eabisim/include -L/home/pme/build/B/ld -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 > /home/pme/build/B/gcc/collect-ld: cannot open sim-crt0.o: No such file or directory > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > configure:1870: $? = 1 > configure: failed program was: > #line 1848 "configure" > #include "confdefs.h" > > int > main () > { > > ; > return 0; > } > configure:1893: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > > The sim-crt0.o file is in powerpc-eabisim/libgloss/rs6000/ but that directory > isn't being searched. I'm scared to even ask what needs to be changed to > make that work. :) AFAIS, the check fails, because CC can't link because it is not finding something (Without knowing the details of the gcc-port you are using, I presume sim-crt0.o to be the compiler's startup code). Therefore, this particular problem probably is related to a problem with integration of libgloss into building of gcc. A potential hack/work-around/fix would be to let gcc's toplevel configury pass appropriate LDFLAGS/CFLAGS down to libstdc++'s configure (-L...libgloss, -B ... or similar) or to let libstdc++'s configure treat "in-sourcetree building w/ newlib/libgloss" as a special case. However, ... I doubt this will help in general, because some gcc-target have portions of their libc outside of the source-tree and apply newlib as minimal, incomplete libc to bootstrap the OS. Continuing this thought scares me :) In its final consequence it would mean either gcc's configuration to be basically broken or autoconf not to be applicable inside of gcc's source-tree, because autoconf pre-requires a functional c-compiler. Ralf