PLEASE HELP!!! Saurabh Bhatnagar/BLR/HTL 05/03/2005 03:19 PM To "gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx" <gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject ./genmodes: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected => while building gcc3.4.2 Re-Building GCC 3.4.2 bootstraping on GCC 3.2.3, I got this error ar rc libiberty.a \ regex.o cplus-dem.o cp-demangle.o cp-demint.o md5.o alloca.o argv.o choose-temp.o concat.o dyn-string.o fdmatch.o fibheap.o floatformat.o fnmatch.o getopt.o getopt1.o getpwd.o getruntime.o hashtab.o hex.o lbasename.o lrealpath.o make-relative-prefix.o make-temp-file.o objalloc.o obstack.o partition.o physmem.o pex-unix.o safe-ctype.o sort.o spaces.o splay-tree.o strerror.o strsignal.o ternary.o xatexit.o xexit.o xmalloc.o xmemdup.o xstrdup.o xstrerror.o asprintf.o mempcpy.o mkstemps.o setenv.o sigsetmask.o stpcpy.o stpncpy.o vasprintf.o /user/sbhatnag/binutilsv2.14/bin/ar: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected gmake[1]: *** [libiberty.a] Error 2 Suspecting broken installation for binutils I checked : $ which ar /user/sbhatnag/binutilsv2.14/bin/ar $ ar ksh: ar: cannot execute Now built binutils and started building GCC 3.4.2 again after distclean. stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/user/sbhatnag/gccv3.4.2/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wold-style-definition -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -o genmodes \ genmodes.o errors.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a ./genmodes -h > tmp-modes.h ./genmodes: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected gmake[2]: *** [s-modes] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/user/sbhatnag/gcc-3.4.2/objdir/gcc' gmake[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/user/sbhatnag/gcc-3.4.2/objdir/gcc' gmake: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 $ pwd /user/sbhatnag/gcc-3.4.2/objdir/gcc/stage1 $ ../genmodes ksh: ../genmodes: cannot execute This program is generated by xgcc compiler(which should be from the GCC 3.2.3 compiler) and I have no clue how to generate this like ar via binutils. Saurabh