long long size compute failure during make of gcc-4.6.1 on OS X 10.7 Lion

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 7 September 2011 16:42, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 7 September 2011 16:25, Bruce Hoglund wrote:
>>
>> configure:5771: result: 0
>> configure:5785: checking size of int
>> configure:5790: gcc -o conftest -g -fkeep-inline-functions    conftest.c  >&5
>> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>>  "___builtin___stpncpy_chk", referenced from:
>>      ___inline_stpncpy_chk in ccL1VweA.o
>> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> configure:5790: $? = 1
>> configure: program exited with status 1
>> configure: failed program was:
>> | /* confdefs.h */
>>
>> "
>>
>> Looks like the checker program ( "confdefs.h") did not have an uptodate idea of w the x86_64 architecture should have or not have, but I may be quite wrong.
>
> You are.  It's just telling you that the symbol it's trying to find is
> an x86_64 symbol.
>
> Again, ignore failures except the "cannot compute sizeof (long long)"
> one, they do not indicate a problem, that's what's supposed to happen.


Apologies, looking properly I see the same linker error in the
"checkin size of long long" test.

So now we're finally getting somewhere.