On 10/21/2013 04:33 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > On 10/21/13, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 10/21/2013 02:32 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> what is this "missing-objcopy" ? anybody have a notion on that one ? >> >> objcopy wasn't found. If you re-run configure you'll see it. > > This is a Solaris server and objcopy is part of Linux binutils, not > part of Solaris ( SVR4 UNIX based ). > > I see here : > > http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html > > GNU binutils Necessary in some circumstances, optional in others. See > the > host/target specific instructions for your platform for > the exact > requirements. > > I check here : http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html > > Where I see no mention of a need for binutils to compile "go". > > We probably need to update that page. Looks like it. > However, having said that I do have : > > $ /usr/local/bin/gobjcopy --version > GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 > Copyright 2012 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) any later version. > This program has absolutely no warranty. > > So it looks like I need a silly environment variable such as OBJCOPY which > points to the GNU binutils in /usr/local/bin. Which I otherwise do not use. Or just add /usr/local/bin to your path, and all will be well. Andrew.
