On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 19:45 +0100, phi gcc wrote:
> I grabbed the elfutils-0.165.tar.bz2
> CU82$ tar xf elfutils-0.165.tar.bz2
> CU82$ cd elfutils-0.165
> CU82$ configure
> ...
> =====================================================================
>         elfutils: 0.165 (eu_version: 165)
> =====================================================================
> 
>     Prefix                             : /usr/local
>     Program prefix ("eu-" recommended) : NONE
>     Source code location               : .
>     Maintainer mode                    :
>     libebl modules subdirectory        : elfutils
>     build arch                         : x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 
>   RECOMMENDED FEATURES (should all be yes)
>     gzip support                       : yes
>     bzip2 support                      : yes
>     lzma/xz support                    : yes
>     libstdc++ demangle support         : yes
>     File textrel check                 : yes
>     Symbol versioning                  : yes
> 
>   NOT RECOMMENDED FEATURES (should all be no)
>     Experimental thread safety         : no
> 
>   OTHER FEATURES
>     Deterministic archives by default  : false
>     Native language support            : yes
> 
>   EXTRA TEST FEATURES (used with make check)
>     have bunzip2 installed (required)  : yes
>     debug branch prediction            : no
>     gprof support                      : no
>     gcov support                       : no
>     run all tests under valgrind       : no
>     gcc undefined behaviour sanitizer  : no
>     use rpath in tests                 : no
>     test biarch                        : no
> 
> 
> CU82$ make
> make --no-print-directory all-recursive
> Making all in config
> ...
> 
> ldgeneric.o: In function `ld_generic_open_outfile':
> /home/phi/elfutils-0.165/src/ldgeneric.c:2669: warning: the use of `mktemp' is d
> angerous, better use `mkstemp' or `mkdtemp'
>   CC       elflint.o
>   CCLD     elflint
> ./ld: unrecognized option '--sysroot=/'
> Try `ld --help' or `ld --usage' for more information.
> collect2: error: ld returned 64 exit status
> make[2]: *** [elflint] Error 1
> rm i386_ld.o
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> ========================
> 
> Am I doing something obviously wrong ?

I think what is happening is that you have "." (the current directory)
in your PATH. So when the build is in src/ it picks up the just build
src/ld program. Which isn't really ready, and doesn't understand
--sysroot. Best to remove "." from your PATH.

Cheers,

Mark