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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.
I tried the static-only approach. That worked for quite a while and then blew up with some java bits complaining they couldn't find libgmp.so. So for now I'm doing the ldconfig thing.
paul