"cannot run C compiled programs" error

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Anna Ceguerra <anna.ceguerra@sydney.edu.au> writes:

> Could the reason for this be that my processor is still 32-bit? I have a
> really old machine...

You need to look into what the assembler is doing, and how it is being
invoked.  The assembler is not a part of gcc.

Ian

> On 18/04/11 18/04/11 1:45 PM, "Ian Lance Taylor" <iant@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>>> configure:3166: checking whether the C compiler works
>>>> configure:3175: ./a.out
>>>> ../../../../gcc-4.6-20110408/libgcc/configure: line 3177: ./a.out: Bad CPU
>>>> type in executable
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure what this error means - do you have a working gcc
>>> installed that can actually compile successfully for your system?
>> 
>> This is when building libgcc.  It means that the newly built gcc is
>> unable to build an executable which runs on the current system.  An
>> error like "Bad CPU type" suggests a problem with the assembler or with
>> how gcc is invoking the assembler.  I don't know enough about Darwin to
>> know what is happening.
>> 
>> Ian