Re: egcs-19980707 snapshot installation broken

[Matthias Mueller <matthias at ica1 dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Jeffrey A. Law writes:
 > 
 >   In message <199807081434.QAA24872@anaconda.ica1.uni-stuttgart.de>you write:
 >   > Hi, I can't install egcs-19980707 on a alphaev56-dec-osf4.0c system.
 >   > I get the following error message:
 >   > 
 >   > checking whether the C compiler (/mnt/video/matthias/tmp/egcs-19980707/gcc/
 >   > xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/tmp/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -g -O2 ) works... no
 >   > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot 
 >   > create executables.
 >   > make: *** [configure-target-libiberty] Error 1
 > There should be a config.log file in one of the libiberty object
 > directories (there are two of them!).  Knowing the contents of that
 > file might help determine what's gone wrong.
 > 
 > 
 > jeff

yes there are some error messages at the end of the file. I hope that
helps.

Matthias

---- snip -----
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

configure:581: checking host system type
configure:604: checking build system type
configure:630: checking for ar
configure:661: checking for ranlib
configure:736: checking for gcc
configure:813: checking whether we are using GNU C
configure:822: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E conftest.c
configure:837: checking whether /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ accepts -g
configure:866: checking for POSIXized ISC
configure:904: checking for a BSD compatible install
configure:963: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:984: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1027: checking for sys/file.h
configure:1037: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1027: checking for sys/param.h
configure:1037: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1027: checking for stdlib.h
configure:1037: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1027: checking for string.h
configure:1037: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1027: checking for unistd.h
configure:1037: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
configure:1584: checking whether the C compiler (/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -g -O2 ) works
configure:1598: /mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/gcc/ -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  1>&5
mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:8 Invalid .stabs/.stabn directive, value not found
line:	 #.stabs "/mnt/video/matthias/dec/egcs-19980707/alphaev56-dec-osf4.0c/libiberty/",100,0,0,$Ltext0

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:9 Invalid .stabs/.stabn directive, value not found
line:	 #.stabs "conftest.c",100,0,0,$Ltext0

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:33 Did not find a PDR block for main
line:		.ent main

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:37 Invalid .stabs/.stabn directive, value not found
line:	 #.stabs "configure",132,0,0,$Ltext1

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:40 Invalid .stabs/.stabn directive, value not found
line:		 #.stabn 68,0,1595,$LM1

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:44 Cannot find .end block for main
line:		.end main

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:45 Invalid .stabs/.stabn directive, value not found
line:	 #.stabs "main:F1",36,0,1595,main

mips-tfile, /tmp/ccoI7wp2.s:46 Segmentation fault
line:	 #.stabs "main:F1",36,0,1595,main

configure: failed program was:
#line 1594 "configure"
#include "confdefs.h"
main(){return(0);}