On 3 July 2012 09:28, Adrian Smith wrote: > When I try to compile gcc using "-mcmodel=large" it fails with: > > configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: > cannot compile. See `config.log' for more details. > > I have, however, successfully downloaded and compiled gcc without > using the "-mcmodel=large" option. gcc compiles, and the resulting > compiler compiles a simple "hello world" and the program runs > successfully. > > Introducing the "-mcmodel=large" parameters into the CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET > parameter in following command, however, causes it to fail: > > make \ > BOOT_CFLAGS='-g -O2 -mcmodel=large' \ > CFLAGS_FOR_TARGET='-g -O2 -mcmodel=large' \ > bootstrap > > The "config.log" is identical between the successful and > non-successful runs (attached). That's not possible, since the error you get is during the configure stage. Thre are multiple config.log files in sub-directories, I assume you were only comparing the top-level ones. The error was presumably in some sub-directory you didn't look in.
