Thanks a lot Dave.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:48 PM
To: Raheja, Himanshu; 'Eli Zaretskii'
Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: RE: BUG while running the make file
On 07 February 2007 18:44, Raheja, Himanshu wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was able to resolve that issue by googling:
>
> When I ran ./configure CFLAGS=-m32 LDFLAGS=-m32
>
> And after that make install was working fine.
> But I am not sure why this was happening.
Probably because your compiler is a recent one, and defaults to
compiling
64-bit code, but your binutils are slightly out of date and have bugs
trying
to assemble the 64-bit code. The -m32 flag that you have found out to
use
makes sure the compiler still generates 32-bit code, which the binutils
do not
have any problem with. So you end up with a 32-bit executable. (It
might be
possible to upgrade your binutils and get the build to work for 64 bits,
and
the resulting executable might run faster, but it's not something to try
unless you were confident with upgrading packages and knew how to revert
to
the old one if something went wrong.)
cheers,
DaveK
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