Re: prevernt -m32 testing in configure

[daggs <daggs at gmx dot com>]

Greetings Jan,

> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 at 9:11 PM
> From: "Jan Kratochvil" <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> To: daggs <daggs@gmx.com>
> Cc: elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
> Subject: Re: prevernt -m32 testing in configure
>
> On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:10:40 +0200, daggs wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile elfutils-0.159 on a 64 bit system.
> > in the configure stage I'm getting to this situation:
> > checking whether gcc -m32 makes executables we can run.. and it fails.
> > 
> > I assume that this is because I don't have 32bit libs on my system.
> > now here is my issue, I cannot install 32bit libs, infact I need libelf to be 64 bit only.
> 
> That -m32 configure check is there only for the purposes of the testsuite.
> Ignore that and all should work.  If it does not work the problem is most
> probably unrelated to the -m32 issue.
> 
> I have removed /lib/libc.so from my system and it all behaves as expected:
> 
> checking whether gcc -m32 makes executables we can run... no
> configure: WARNING: not running biarch tests, gcc -m32 does not work
> +
> make check will:
> SKIP: run-backtrace-native-biarch.sh
> SKIP: run-backtrace-native-core-biarch.sh
> (2 tests were not run)
> 
> This is all perfectly valid.
> 
> 
> Jan
> 

thanks for the help, here is a good possibility that the issue is mine, I just remembered that I have applied some patches that I'm not sure I need, will try vanilla, hope it works.