Kai Ruottu wrote:
Kai Ruottu wrote:
Jonathan Beit-Aharon wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to build gcc 3.4.2 on Linux, and am running into
*exactly* the same problem (also with library libstdc++v3).
Except my platform is Intel Celeron.
Subject: help building x86_64->i686 cross-compiler
I'm running a debian amd64 (pure, not biarch/multiarch), and I'm
trying to build gcc that is able to compile regular x86 binaries (as
in):
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
but it fails with the following:
checking for main in -lm... configure: error: Link tests are not
allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
[snip]
I eventually found a broken cpp in /usr/local/bin, which was left over
from some earlier failed install... Somehow it was missed when that
failure was uninstalled -- don't ask me how/why, because in the words of
Oz, the Great and Powerful, "I don't know how it works" :-)
Currently there is some kind of new bolshevism idea which states that
people shouldn't use any 'original' libraries for a Linux target, but
one should replace them with self-built glibc, termcap, ncurses, X11,
Gnome, KDE etc. libraries... If one really feels this idea about
starting everything from absolute scratch as one's own, then there
are people who will support that idea. The things below then come from
my Scandinavian 'social democracy', "evolutionary socialism", which
states that bettering the world can be based on what we already have,
no "starting everything from scratch" is needed...
Dear Kai Ruottu, first, thank you for your helpful response. There is
no need to apologize for your cooperativist outlook -- as far as I'm
concerned cooperation is the reason Open Software is successful. The
best cooperation is that which comes from free will and free
association, but other cooperation, such as that which comes of economic
necessity, e.g., by employees of a corporation working jointly in order
to make a living, is not to be disparaged either.
Although I don't enjoy building systems "from scratch", occasionally we
all have to upgrade (or even downgrade) some software in order to port
applications between systems (in my case, FreeBSD 5.4 to Linux Fedora 3).
