ecgs build problem...

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I ran into this same thing trying to build a cross compiler for Linux based
on EGCS-1.1.  This problem did not exist for EGCS-1.0.3.  Anyone know how to
fix it for PowerPC?


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kai Ruottu [SMTP:karuottu@freenet.hut.fi]
> Sent:	Sunday, October 04, 1998 9:03 PM
> To:	Paul@rasdoc.com
> Cc:	crossgcc@cygnus.com
> Subject:	Re: ecgs build problem...
> 
> Paul Breed wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to build a m68k cross compiler to run under win32....
> > When I try to build the compiler...
> > It runs for awhile and then :
> > checking whether the C compiler (/build/egcs/gcc/xgcc -B/build/egcs/gcc/
> > -O2 ) works... no
> > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> > cannot create executables.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> 
>  As the default it cannot create executables. You need to define the
> linker
> script, give the libs to link etc.  Simply this means that you must have
> the
> target known, which 'm68k' board it is, and so on...
> 
>  As a 'quick and dirty' solution, please just edit the 'specs' in the
> build 
> directory to have the needed info for some supported target. Here I use
> the 
> IDP-one :
> 
> ---------------------
> *link:
> -T idp.ld%s
> 
> *lib:
> -lc -lidp -lc
> 
> *libgcc:
> -lgcc
> 
> *startfile:
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> So change the '*link:', '*lib:' and '*startfile:' to be like the previous
> ones.
> The startfile name is defined in the linker script (idp.ld), so the
> definition
> in 'specs' is empty.
> 
> > Will egcs build using the stock gcc from the cygwin32 setup?
> 
> I build my win32-hosted cross-compilers with a Linux-to-cygwin32 
> cross-compiler, so the problems you could get depend on the Cygwin32 
> environment and how well it can behave just like Unix...
> 
> Regards,  Kai
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