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Re: Problems building gcc
- From: Brian Drummond <brian at shapes dot demon dot co dot uk>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:34:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: Problems building gcc
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- Reply-to: brian at shapes dot demon dot co dot uk
On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 08:47 +0100, Douglas Houston wrote:
>
> configure: error: in
> `/root/gcc-5.4.0-ins
> tall/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc':
> configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot
> compile
> See `config.log' for more details.
Note - there are config.log files all over the place ... the way to
read this message is that it is the config.log in the named directory
(path ending in libgcc) which indicates the problem.
The message could be a little clearer about that.
-- Brian