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Re: Problems building Binutils-2.25
- From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: "Ellis N. Thomas" <ExtraLeveLInSoftware at ntlworld dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 09:38:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: Problems building Binutils-2.25
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On 9 June 2015 at 08:52, Ellis N. Thomas
<ExtraLeveLInSoftware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for your swift reply.
>
> You say ISl and Cloog are not needed, but that was how my build started, and configure gave the
> "not supported" error just after checking for ISL:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp --ignore-initial=16 $$f1 $$f2
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking for version 0.10 of ISL... no
> checking for version 0.11 of ISL... no
> checking for version 0.12 of ISL... no
> *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
> ld gas gprof
> (Any other directories should still work fine.)
> ...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So there seems to be some other reason why ld and as will not build. The earlier checks listed by
> configure do not seem to indicate problems, so I am not clear what is needed. (The output from configure
> with and without isl and cloog source directories was the same up to this point, as included at the end of
> my message of 8 Jun 2015.) If configure has carried out other checks after the version of ISL and before
> the "not supported" error then it has not identified what.
Look in config.log
I do not believe the "not supported in the following subdirectories"
message is related to ISL, it just happens that the ISL checks are the
last thing printed before that message.