RE: build problem on cygwin

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 10 August 2007 16:45, Marten Bandholz wrote:

  Please keep this thread on the binutils list Marten, thank you.  (There are
more people on that list than just me, and I'm off home for the weekend
now...)

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 10 August 2007 15:55, mba wrote:
>> 
>>> I experience a build error when trying to configure the binutils on
>>> cygwin: 
>>> 
>>> cd binutils-2.17/
>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/msp430 --target=msp430
>>> make
>>> [...]
>>> checking for long long... yes
>>> checking for long long... yes
>>> checking sizeof long long... configure: error: cannot compute the sizeof
>>> (long long), 77 

>>   Dunno, but something else must be going wrong here, because it worked
>> fine for me.
> 
> I was already guessing so ;)
> 
>>   Try again, but this time add the "-v" option to your command line.  That
>> should get more diagnostic output from configure.
> 
> Actually, the configure is quite short and works ok. The error shows up
> during a longish make.

  That's just the way binutils works: the initial configure just configures
the top level, then as make descends into each subdir, it configures and
builds each one as it goes along.

> I attached the two log files (performing configure with -v, and make
> afterwards). As you can see make aborts and I get an  'error: cannot
> compute sizeof (long long), 77' on the console.
> 
> ./configure -v --prefix=/usr/local/msp430 --target=msp430 >
> configure_log.txt
> 
> make > make_log
> 
> Please let me know if you have any idea what I could try.

  As a result of the -v, there should be detailed configure output in
bfd/config.log.  That's what you need to look at, not just the output that you
get on the command line; it's got far more detail.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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