[Bug bootstrap/52007] configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables

["chilakaravikumar at yahoo dot co.in" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52007

--- Comment #8 from chilaka <chilakaravikumar at yahoo dot co.in> 2012-01-27 12:17:44 UTC ---

I managed to generate a Makefile in objdir then issued a make command from that
directory. After a 10 minute compilation it ended with the below error.

checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute suffix
of object files: cannot compile

Note: I don't have any IA64 files/binaries on my host machine where this cross
compilation is going, so I have not setup where to look for target files. Is
this is the reason for this failure. 

[root@localhost objdir]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT
2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost objdir]# pwd
/opt/objdir
[root@localhost objdir]# ../gcc-4.3.0/configure --prefix=/opt/ia64gcc  
--target=ia64-redhat-linux  
[root@localhost objdir]# make 
:
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/objdir/gcc'
Checking multilib configuration for libgcc...
mkdir -p -- ia64-redhat-linux/libgcc
Configuring in ia64-redhat-linux/libgcc
configure: creating cache ./config.cache
checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for gawk... gawk
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... ia64-redhat-linux-gnu
checking for ia64-redhat-linux-ar... ia64-redhat-linux-ar
checking for ia64-redhat-linux-lipo... ia64-redhat-linux-lipo
checking for ia64-redhat-linux-nm... /opt/objdir/./gcc/nm
checking for ia64-redhat-linux-ranlib... ia64-redhat-linux-ranlib
checking for ia64-redhat-linux-strip... ia64-redhat-linux-strip
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ia64-redhat-linux-gcc... /opt/objdir/./gcc/xgcc
-B/opt/objdir/./gcc/ -B/opt/ia64gcc/ia64-redhat-linux/bin/
-B/opt/ia64gcc/ia64-redhat-linux/lib/ -isystem
/opt/ia64gcc/ia64-redhat-linux/include -isystem
/opt/ia64gcc/ia64-redhat-linux/sys-include
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute suffix
of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/objdir'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[root@localhost objdir]# tail -40  config.log
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
stage1_cflags='-g -fkeep-inline-functions'
stage1_checking='--enable-checking=yes,types'
stage1_languages='c'
stage2_werror_flag=''
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target='ia64-redhat-linux-gnu'
target_alias='ia64-redhat-linux'
target_configargs='--cache-file=./config.cache --enable-multilib
--with-cross-host=i686-pc-linux-gnu '--prefix=/opt/ia64gcc'
'--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java,objc'
--program-transform-name='s,^,ia64-redhat-linux-,''
target_cpu='ia64'
target_noncanonical='ia64-redhat-linux'
target_os='linux-gnu'
target_subdir='ia64-redhat-linux'
target_vendor='redhat'
tooldir='${exec_prefix}/ia64-redhat-linux'

## ------------- ##
## Output files. ##
## ------------- ##

alphaieee_frag='/dev/null'
host_makefile_frag='../gcc-4.3.0/config/mh-x86omitfp'
ospace_frag='/dev/null'
serialization_dependencies='serdep.tmp'
target_makefile_frag='../gcc-4.3.0/config/mt-gnu'

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#endif
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" void exit (int) throw ();

configure: exit 0