Compiling a cross compiler for VXWorks - "cannot compute suffix of object files"

[Thomas Clark]

I'm trying to compile glibc for vxworks, but I'm getting errors with that.

$ ../configure --host=i686-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr/local/ppc-vxworks
$ make

#snip

../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S: Assembler messages:
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: invalid identifier for ".ifdef"
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: junk at end of line, first
unrecognized character is `1'
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: junk at end of line, first
unrecognized character is `1'
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: Missing symbol name in directive
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: junk at end of line, first
unrecognized character is `1'
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: Missing symbol name in directive
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: junk at end of line, first
unrecognized character is `.'
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: junk at end of line, first
unrecognized character is `1'
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: expected comma after name `'
in .size directive
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: ".endif" without ".if"
../sysdeps/i386/fpu/s_frexp.S:66: Error: junk `.get_pc_thunk.dx' after
expression
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