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Re: Error building on OS X


Timur Tabi wrote:

I'm trying to build a PowerPC-targeted gcc (4.3.3) on a PowerPC OS X
10.5 system.  I have the latest Xcode installed, which comes with gcc
4.0 and 4.2.  The reason I'm doing this is because I want to build a
4.3-based toolchain that can generate Linux binaries for PowerPC
embedded systems.

Unfortunately, I'm not getting very far at all. When I run this command:

./gcc-4.3.3/configure --target=powerpc-linux --program-prefix=powerpc-

I get this error:

checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
C compiler cannot create executables

Producing GCC binaries requires a working C toolchain (C compiler, C library, assembler, linker,...) for the "host" system, in your case for OS X 10.5! The GCC "sources" are mostly in 'C' language, so a working C compiler for the host is required to compile them. In order to make the executables for the "OS X to Linux/PPC" crosscompiler, producing executables for OS X 10.5 MUST work !

The error tells that now you cannot produce any executables for OS X
10.5 with the installed "Xcode" (what on earth is that?) !

and config.log says this:

configure:3194: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3197: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/ld: warning unknown
-macosx_version_min parameter value: 10.5.6 ignored (using 10.1)

This says "powerpc-apple-darwin9"... Is that really the same thing as "a PowerPC OS X 10.5 system" ? Ie do you really have GCC etc made for OS X 10.5 ? Not one made for OS X 9.x ?



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