RE: [avr-gcc-list] problem building gcc 4.3.2

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:19 PM
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> Subject: [avr-gcc-list] problem building gcc 4.3.2
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build RHEL/CentOS packages that match the latest winavr 
> release.  I've downloaded Eric's patches and incorporated them into 
> the build process.  The build dies during libgcc with this error:
> 
> Configuring in avr/libgcc
> configure: creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... avr-unknown-none
> checking for avr-ar... /usr/avr/bin/ar
> checking for avr-lipo... avr-lipo
> checking for avr-nm... 
> /home/galens/rpm/BUILD/avr-gcc-4.3.2/build/./gcc/nm
> checking for avr-ranlib... /usr/avr/bin/ranlib
> checking for avr-strip... /usr/avr/bin/strip
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for avr-gcc... 
> /home/galens/rpm/BUILD/avr-gcc-4.3.2/build/./gcc/xgcc -B
> /home/galens/rpm/BUILD/avr-gcc-4.3.2/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/avr/bin/ 
> -B/usr/avr/lib
> / -isystem /usr/avr/include -isystem /usr/avr/sys-include
> checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot 
> compute suffix o
> f object files: cannot compile
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> 
> When I look at avr/libgcc/config.log, I see that xgcc is being passed 
> i386 options, which can't be correct:

It sounds like avr-binutils is not in the PATH.

 
> I haven't been able to figure out what I've done wrong.  Do 
> Eric's gcc 
> patches require a bootstrap?  If so, what is the recommend way of 
> doing this?
> 

Please note that this is what I do in my scripts to build binutils:

make maybe-configure-bfd 2>&1 | tee $project-make-configure-bfd.log
make -C bfd headers 2>&1 | tee $project-make-headers.log
make all html install install-html 2>&1 | tee $project-make.log


HTH,
Eric