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Re: problem with installing binutils
- To: Gerald Marewo <gerald at aardvark dot uz dot ac dot zw>,binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: problem with installing binutils
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:05:25 -0700
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000622174957.A28324@aardvark.uz.ac.zw>
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:49:57PM +0200, Gerald Marewo wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I tried installing binutils 2.9.5.0.46 on linux:
>
> Linux aardvark 2.0.34 #67 Thu Jun 18 17:04:10 MEST 1998 i686 unknown
>
> and I get the following output when I run configure with
>
> ./configure
>
> from the source directory:
>
> configuring for a i686-pc-linux-host
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
config.guess thinks you have a glibc 2 base Linux. I believe I saw the
discussion on config.guess somewhere. Has config.guess been fixed?
> Created "Makefile" in /home/gerald/usr/local/binutils/binutils-2.9.5.0.46 using "mt-frag"
> Cannot find the GNU C Library minor version number
>
You seem to have a libc5 based one. You can try
# ./configure i686-pc-linuxlibc5
H.J.