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Re: problems compiling latest binutils..
- To: JorgP <jorgp at bartnet dot net>
- Subject: Re: problems compiling latest binutils..
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:45:49 +1000 (EST)
- cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, JorgP wrote:
> gcc -shared -o libitcl3.0.so itcl_bicmds.o itcl_class.o itcl_cmds.o
> itcl_ensemble.o itcl_linkage.o itcl_methods.o itcl_migrate.o itcl_objects.o
> itcl_obsolete.o
> itcl_parse.o itcl_util.o
> ranlib libitcl3.0.so
> ranlib: libitcl3.0.so: File format not recognized
> make[2]: *** [libitcl3.0.so] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/binutils-2.11.90/itcl/itcl/unix'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/binutils-2.11.90/itcl'
> make: *** [all-itcl] Error 2
Hmm, --enable-shared should set RANLIB to `:' when building shared libs
according to the Makefile in itcl/itcl/unix/. What's happenning is that
the top level Makefile passes RANLIB=ranlib down to the lower Makefile
which is wrong in this case. One workaround is to compile with
"make RANLIB=:"
Alan Modra
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