Randy Barlow wrote: > So I am trying to bring my CHOST from i386-pc-linux-gnu to > i686-pc-linux-gnu by following the guide at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml. Well so far things > aren't working out so well. The first step is to change the CHOST > variable. I also went ahead and added nptl and nptlonly to my USE flags > while I was editing /etc/make.conf. Then I ran the command > > # emerge -av1 binutils gcc glibc > > binutils seemed to have merged correctly, but the configure script for > gcc seems to be having issues. The last few lines of output show: > > checking whether the C compiler (gcc -mtune=i686 -pipe -march=pentium3 > -O2 ) works... no > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler > cannot create executables. > > I tried to manually call a g++ command on some code I have, and got the > following error: > > g++: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory > > So my compiler is broke. Any pointers on how to fix this?
One thing I just thought of is that I could add the executables installed by binutils to my $PATH so that it can find them to build the new compiler - perhaps that will work? -- Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
