Build failures for binutils-2.9.1 under Red Hat Linux 6.1

["Thunder Scientific Corporation" <mike at ThunderScientific dot com>]

I would appreciate any help someone could offer:  I can't seem to make the
binutils package.  I am running as root and trying to build a cross compiler
to generate elf executables for an embedded 486DX controller board.  I can
configure the binutils package quite well, but the build always fails at the
same place, with the same message.

This does not seem to depend on the target. Here are several configure
statements I've tried:

./configure --target=i486-linux-gnu
./configure --target=i386-elf
./configure --target=i486-elf

These configure scripts run OK, with no errors.  Then I do "make clean
depend all install" and the make always fails at the same point, after
visiting the following directories in this exact sequence:

`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/libiberty'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/opcodes'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/bfd'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/bfd/doc'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/binutils'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/ld'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/gas'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/gas/doc'
`/usr/src/binutils-2.9.1/etc'

The error message I get is:
"make: *** No rule to make target `depend'.  Stop."

Notice this is not a subdirectory error.  This suggests to me there is an
error either in depend.c or in the Makefile itself.  (Why does make think I
have a target named "depend"?)

Anyone have any ideas?

Please email any response to: richardb@thunderscientific.com or post it to
this list.

Thanks in advance.



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