[Bug binutils/4334] MAKE FAILED: cpu-powerpc.o isn't added to libbfd.a ?

[vincent dot riviere at freesbee dot fr]

------- Additional Comments From vincent dot riviere at freesbee dot fr  
2007-05-22 20:57 -------
Fixing this "bug" may not be a good idea, because the build fails later for 
another reason :
gcc ... readelf.c
../bfd/bfd.h:103:3: #error No 64 bit integer type available

There is also another bad smell : when running make just after running 
configure without arguments, the following warnings are displayed :
$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/mtxt/binutils-2.17.obj'
mkdir -p -- ./libiberty
Configuring in ./libiberty
configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: 
configure: creating cache ./config.cache

Note that everything works perfectly on a filesystem in binmode.
Something surely goes wrong in the configure stuff when textmode is used.

It might be nice to fix the binutils so they can compile in textmode, but we 
can be sure that there is a *lot* of other software that fails to be built in 
textmode. The best solution may be to check for textmode at runtime, and fail 
with an error message saying that the user must switch to binmode for compiling.
Furthermore, the Cygwin setup program itself clames that it is NOT RECOMMENDED 
to use textmode...

Vincent

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4334

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