[Clfs-support] clfs 1.2.0 powerpc 5.14 configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile

[William Harrington]

On Sep 4, 2012, at 06:36 AM, Tobi Ipaye wrote:

> /mnt/clfs/sources/gcc-build/./gcc/as: line 87: exec: -m: invalid  
> option
> exec: usage: exec [-cl] [-a name] [command [arguments ...]]  
> [redirection ...]
> configure:3272: $? = 1

This exited with a status of 1 cause of as having an invalid -m option.

checking build system type... i486-cross-linux-gnu   If your uname -a  
output is for i686, why is this set to i486?

I don't know how well newer ubuntu releases will work with the 1.2.0  
book, either.

Maybe you can check your command history with the book and maybe find  
a typo or it may in fact be an issue cause of Ubuntu. Who knows. I do  
know, when i did my cross tools and tools for my powerbook G4 before  
the big version updates to CLFS GIT (our development version) I had  
no issues and I used a debian squeeze install, and all went well. Was  
using x86_64 host in vmware.

Of course did the usual apt-get install build-essential m4 gawk  
ncurses-dev bison texinfo && sudo dpkg-reconfigure  ( to make sure  
the default shell was bash).

Sincerely,

William Harrington