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Re: Trouble doing bootstrap
On Oct 13, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Paul Koning <paul_koning@dell.com> writes:
>
>> My build system doesn't have LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined so whatever is
>> the Linux default would apply. Perhaps I should change that. But it
>> seems strange that configure finds the prerequisites and then ends up
>> generating makefiles that produce a compiler that can't find those
>> things, even when it's built into the same /usr/local as the libraries
>> it depends on.
>
> Yes, it's a mess. But we don't know of any really clean way to fix it.
>
> I very strongly recommend that if you want to build gcc's supporting
> libraries yourself, rather than getting them from your distro, that you
> configure them with --disable-shared when you build them.
>
> Or, if you must, add /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf file or to
> one of your /etc/ld.so.conf.d files, and run ldconfig.
Thanks, the static-only approach sounds good. I had to build my own instead of using the distro ones since those aren't up to date. Either that or I'm mixed up with my other test system (a Mac).
paul