binutils turns gcc into a cross compiler

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Tue Feb 27 20:09:00 GMT 2001


On Feb 28, 2001, Jesse Caldwell <Jesse.Caldwell@Colorado.EDU> wrote:

> What gives? Installing binutils turns gcc into a cross compiler?

configure scripts generated by autoconf 2.13 assume that, if configure
can't run a program created by the compiler, then the compiler is a
cross-compiler.

Try to compile and link a hello world-like program using the installed
gcc and binutils and see why configure thinks it's a cross compiler.

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