On 10/21/13, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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. > nope. :-( I have always had /usr/local/bin in my PATH. In fact : $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/gcc4/bin:/usr/xpg6/bin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/schily/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/sparc-solaris Also I have now : OBJCOPY=/usr/local/bin/gobjcopy OBJDUMP=/usr/local/bin/gobjdump READELF=/usr/local/bin/greadelf Consider the confusion below where objcopy and objdump etc seem to be found and then not found and then found again : $ pwd /usr/local/build/gcc-4.8.2_SunOS5.10_sparcv9.004 $ ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc4 \ > --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 \ > --without-gnu-as --without-gnu-ld --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld \ > --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-shared \ > --libdir=/usr/local/gcc4/lib --libexecdir=/usr/local/gcc4/lib \ > --disable-ppl-version-check --disable-cloog-version-check \ > --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,go,objc --enable-bootstrap checking build system type... sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 checking host system type... sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 checking target system type... sparc64-sun-solaris2.10 checking for a BSD-compatible install... ../gcc-4.8.2/install-sh -c checking whether ln works... yes checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/local/bin/gsed checking for gawk... gawk checking for libatomic support... yes checking for libitm support... yes checking for libsanitizer support... no checking for gcc... /usr/local/gcc4/bin/gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /usr/local/gcc4/bin/gcc accepts -g... yes checking for /usr/local/gcc4/bin/gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether /usr/local/gcc4/bin/g++ accepts -g... yes checking whether g++ accepts -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc... yes checking for gnatbind... gnatbind checking for gnatmake... gnatmake checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... no checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp $$f1 $$f2 16 16 checking for objdir... .libs checking for version 0.10 of ISL... no checking for version 0.11 of ISL... no checking for version 0.12 of ISL... no 'c++' language required by 'go' in stage 1; enabling The following languages will be built: c,c++,fortran,go,lto,objc *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories: target-libmudflap target-libsanitizer gnattools target-libada target-zlib target-libjava target-boehm-gc (Any other directories should still work fine.) checking for default BUILD_CONFIG... checking for bison... bison -y checking for bison... bison checking for gm4... /usr/local/bin/gm4 checking for flex... flex checking for flex... flex checking for makeinfo... makeinfo checking for expect... expect checking for runtest... runtest checking for ar... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/ar checking for as... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/as checking for dlltool... no checking for ld... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/ld checking for lipo... no checking for nm... (cached) /usr/ccs/bin/nm -p checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for windres... no checking for windmc... no checking for objcopy... (cached) /usr/local/bin/gobjcopy <---- excellent checking for objdump... (cached) /usr/local/bin/gobjdump <--- good checking for readelf... (cached) /usr/local/bin/greadelf <--- perfect checking for cc... cc checking for c++... c++ checking for gcc... gcc checking for gcj... no checking for gfortran... gfortran checking for gccgo... no checking for ar... no checking for ar... ar checking for as... no checking for as... as checking for dlltool... no checking for dlltool... no checking for ld... no checking for ld... ld checking for lipo... no checking for lipo... no checking for nm... no checking for nm... nm checking for objdump... no <------- bogus checking for objdump... no <------- bogus checking for ranlib... no checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for readelf... no <--- bogus checking for readelf... no <---- bogus checking for strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for windres... no checking for windres... no checking for windmc... no checking for windmc... no checking where to find the target ar... host tool checking where to find the target as... host tool checking where to find the target cc... just compiled checking where to find the target c++... just compiled checking where to find the target c++ for libstdc++... just compiled checking where to find the target dlltool... host tool checking where to find the target gcc... just compiled checking where to find the target gcj... host tool checking where to find the target gfortran... just compiled checking where to find the target gccgo... just compiled checking where to find the target ld... host tool checking where to find the target lipo... host tool checking where to find the target nm... host tool checking where to find the target objdump... host tool <--- I'm confused here checking where to find the target ranlib... host tool checking where to find the target readelf... host tool checking where to find the target strip... host tool checking where to find the target windres... host tool checking where to find the target windmc... host tool checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile So I have no idea how to make heads or tails out of that mess above. Dennis
