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Re: Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Jay Foster <jay at systech dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:52 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
- References: <74C9525D67A5FF4791614FDB06593BB10429A40F@mail.systech.com>
Jay Foster wrote:
> Yes, but there seems to be some 'sub-configures' that aren't getting the
> --host= argument passed to them, and do the guess host thing, which guesses
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu again, which fails.
>
> I'm also concerned that even if I could get past this, it would fail finding
> TCL and TK, since there doesn't seem to be a tclConfig.sh or tkConfig.sh
> file anywhere on the installation. Yes, I did install TCL and TK (version
> 8.4).
I don't have an x86_64 system installed here (I run simple x86 kernel
on my AMD/64 boxes), so I can't test this.
Is there something in particular you need to [re]build the host tools for?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:08 AM
> To: Jay Foster
> Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
>
>
> Jay Foster wrote:
>> I'm trying to build the host tools (ecosconfig, et al) on a new install of
>> Fedora 8 (x86_64). I am getting the following error when running
> configure:
>> checking build system type... Invalid configuration
>> `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized.
>>
>> I tried adding --host=x86_64-linux-gnu to the configure options, but it
>> seems that the configure script isn't passing this down to the
>> sub-configures, and I end up with the same error further on. I'm sure
>> someone has built these tools on a x86_64 linux architecture that could
>> provide me with the solution to this problem.
>
> I'd be a little surprised if someone had :-)
>
> Did you try forcing the host to be just x86-linux-gnu? The
> process will probably work just as well with that setting.
>
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