Dear Brian and Andreas ! Thank you very much for your analysis, looking furher in the as versions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> whereis as as: /bin/as /usr/bin/as /usr/share/man/man1/as.1.gz So quite strangely I have 2 times the as asember I 'am really surprised ! Checking further: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /bin/as --version GNU assembler 2.9 Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-pc-linux-gnu'. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /usr/bin/as --version GNU assembler 2.11.92.0.10 (SuSE) Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `i486-suse-linux'. QUESTION: IS IT ENOUGH to throw away the old version ? Kind Regards, Wim Eijsenga ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tuesday 08 July 2008 22:08, you wrote: > wim wrote: > > About the output of the following command: > > gcc -print-prog-name=as > > > > The output is simply: > > > > as > > That was meant to be one single command: > > `gcc -print-prog-name=as` --version > > But anyway, that doesn't really matter. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin> as --version > > GNU assembler 2.9 > > Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of > > the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. > > This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-pc-linux-gnu'. > > So you somehow have a modern gcc 4.2.4 and this ancient 11 year old > assembler? That's the cause of your problem: > > configure:4657: gcc -o conftest -O2 conftest.c >&5 > /tmp/ccBCyz5e.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/ccBCyz5e.s:23: Warning: Bad .section directive: want a,w,x in > string > /tmp/ccBCyz5e.s:23: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character > is `M'. > > gcc is outputting directives that the assembler doesn't understand > because it's much older. You can't really expect tools with this large > of a version dicrepancy to work together. I don't even understand how > you managed to compile this version of gcc because it's supposed to do > configure checks of the assembler in order to enable functionality, but > that's neither here nor there. > > I suggest that you ditch this self-compiled gcc and use whatever > compiler came with your distro, as it will at least work harmoniously > with this ancient binutils. Use that combination to build a modern > binutils, then rebuild a modern gcc and make sure it uses the updated > binutils (e.g. by putting the new binutils first in PATH before the old > one or by specifying --with-as and --with-ld.) > > Brian _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
