On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:03:40PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > I just started another attempt to build for ppc64, using the > 20071030 book. And didn't get very far at all - binutils tried to > use x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar and tried to find it (yeah, I'm building > from x86_64 multilib). To make sense of that, it should say: 'binutils tried to use x86_64-pc-linux-ar and failed to find it'.
So much for my proof-reading. > > This is the first part of the cross-compile, so far all I've built > are the headers and 'file'). At this stage, the only variant of > 'ar' is just plain 'ar'. The really strange thing is that > 'configure' tested for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar and didn't find it, > then later decided it was indeed there. Looking at the _main_ > config.log, I can see > > configure:6295: checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar > configure:6324: result: no > > but then at the end > AR='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar' > AR_FOR_TARGET='powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ar' > > which means that when configure runs in a subdirectory it finds > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar. > > I don't understand how this can work, unless for some strange > reason only x86_64 hosts are affected. Maybe I'm missing something > obvious. > > ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clfs-support
