From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96527 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2016 08:33:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 96471 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jul 2016 08:33:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,KAM_COUK,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*F:U*brian, in=c2, H*R:U*brian, H*F:D*demon.co.uk?= X-HELO: smtp.demon.co.uk Received: from mdfmta009.mxout.tch.inty.net (HELO smtp.demon.co.uk) (91.221.169.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:33:50 +0000 Received: from mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A627128162 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:33:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529DF12815E for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:33:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from Sparrowhawk (unknown [62.49.20.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mdfmta009.tch.inty.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:33:35 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <1469608475.23698.22.camel@shapes.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Problems building gcc From: Brian Drummond Reply-To: brian@shapes.demon.co.uk To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 21:59:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20160727084755.73846m6y070c2lss@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk> References: <20160727084755.73846m6y070c2lss@www.staffmail.ed.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MDF-HostID: 22 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-07/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 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