On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kirkby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peng Yu wrote: > >> I still get some errors. And I checked that ld does not have the >> options -Wl,-rpath. Can somebody let me know what the problem is? > > -Wl,-foobar is a *compiler* option which passes -foobar directly to the > *linker*. (There is also an option -Wa,-foobar which would pass -foobar to > the *assembler*). > > So if you compile with -Wl,-rpath, the linker will see only -rpath, without > the -Wl, > > > I'm not sure what your problem is - I think building gcc on some systems is > a bit of a black art. But you need to know that -Wl,-rpath is not something > the linker will see - it will only see the -rpath. My OS is of the following. I don't think that it is an exotic system. $ cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5 (Final) $ uname -a Linux selenium.cluster 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:02:30 EST 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ dmesg | grep gcc Linux version 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:02:30 EST 2008 My ld is of the following version. $ ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1 Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) a later version. This program has absolutely no warranty. Can somebody let me know how to compile gcc on my machine? To rephrase, I have used the following commands. $ mkdir build $ cd build $ /path/to/gcc-source-code/configure --enable-languages="c java" --prefix=/path/to/install Regards, Peng
