OK, got all the tools installed and the build for GDC went on
for some
time, but eventually bombed out with:
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in
`/home/steve/gdc/objdir/i686-**pc-linux-gnu/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files:
cannot compile
Help? Out of my depth.
Hello Steve,
It's been a while since you've poked your head round here. ;-)
This error message you are getting is quite misleading and
frequently the
problem has nothing to do with the message. You have to check
the file
'config.log' in the directory where the error occurred. In the
error you
are getting, you would have to check the 'config.log' file in
the directory
'/home/steve/gdc/objdir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc'. There might
be several
test programs that failed during the configuration, but some of
these
failures are non-critical. Check for the last error entry in
the file.
However a common cause is that the tequired libraries for the
GCC build are
missing, specifically MPFR, GMP and MPC.
In Ubuntu, even if these packages are installed, they are put
into
multiarch directories which vanilla GCC isn't aware of.
Can you export the following two environment variables, and see
if it
continues to fail.
export CPATH=/usr/include/i686-linux-gnu
export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i686-linux-gnu
Ian, It would not start the build at all until I installed the
latest versions of GMO, MPFR, and MPC
With the export commands I got the same error.
The last error in config.log was
configure:3605: error: in
`/home/steve/gdc/objdir/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc':
configure:3608: error: cannot compute suffix of object files:
cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
However there is an error before that
/home/steve/gdc/objdir/./gcc/cc1: error while loading shared
libraries: libmpfr.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
so possibly the MPFR install put it in the wrong place. I will
look for it. Where is the right place?
Thanks Steve
