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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems building gcc
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1469608475.23698.22.camel@shapes.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160727084755.73846m6y070c2lss@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk>

On Wed, 2016-07-27 at 08:47 +0100, Douglas Houston wrote:
> 
> configure: error: in  
> `/root/gcc-5.4.0-ins
> tall/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc':
> configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot
> compile
> See `config.log' for more details.

Note - there are config.log files all over the place ... the way to
read this message is that it is the config.log in the named directory
(path ending in libgcc) which indicates the problem. 

The message could be a little clearer about that.

-- Brian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-27  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-27  8:17 Douglas Houston
2016-07-27  8:22 ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-07-27  8:33   ` Jonathan Wakely
2016-07-27 21:59 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-02-06 17:36 T Rex
2024-02-06 19:22 ` Jonathan Wakely
     [not found]   ` <CAGmGLoh+Pbo9G9=1sDRXyHTV7-_CkPDOw+JWppn1TuVRXnszcA@mail.gmail.com>
2024-02-06 22:35     ` Fwd: " T Rex
2024-02-07  7:33       ` Jonathan Wakely
2000-10-20 18:44 Problems building GCC jeisen
2000-07-19  2:17 problems building gcc Helfried Tschemmernegg

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