Re: configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.

[Anthony Foiani <anthony dot foiani at gmail dot com>]

[Sorry, just realized this didn't go out on the list...]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Anthony Foiani
<anthony.foiani@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Darcy --
>
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Darcy Watkins <dwatkins@tranzeo.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2011-10-14 at 06:41 -0700, Darcy Watkins wrote:
> > --snip!--
> > > But I think this is part of gcc 4.5.3, not glibc.
> >
> > tried gcc 4.5.2 - same failure.
> >
> > tried gcc 4.4.6 - success (no surprise since I used 4.4.5 before).
> >
> > I guess for now, I just have to stick with the older gcc versions for
> > powerpc until some patches are available for the newer ones.
>
> Not sure what problem you might be having on your platform, but I've
> used 4.5.1 and 4.5.2, and am currently using 4.6.1. ÂThis is on a
> e300c3 32-bit platform (MPC8315E).

Also, my host system is Fedora 14 x86-64.

>
> (Be forewarned that going to current gcc will also require you to
> update to a much more current kernel, as the 4.6.x series introduces
> new warnings, and sections of the kernel are built with -Wall -Werror.
> ÂI just went straight to 3.0, but I know that 2.6.36 was "too old" for
> 4.6.)
>
> I tend to get the "tests not allowed..." when I'm trying to
> cross-compile later packages, not during the crosstools build itself.
> I usually work around this by determining the appropriate variable in
> the ./configure script, then giving it as an environment variable in
> my own build script. ÂE.g., for apache:
>
> Â Âac_default_prefix=/ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \
> Â Âac_cv_sizeof_struct_iovec=8 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \
>  Âac_cv_struct_rlimit=yes               \
>  Âac_cv_define_PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED=yes       \
>  Âac_cv_func_setpgrp_void=yes             \
>  Âac_cv_file__dev_zero=yes              Â\
> Â Âac_site_file=NONE Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â \
>  Âap_cv_void_ptr_lt_long=no              \
>  Âapr_cv_tcp_nodelay_with_cork=yes          Â\
>  Âapr_cv_mutex_robust_shared=yes           Â\
>  Âapr_cv_process_shared_works=yes           \
>  Âmanualdir=/doc/httpd-manual             \
>  Â./configure                     \
> Â Â Â Â--prefix=/ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â\
>    Â--sysconfdir=/etc                \
>    Â--datadir=/www                 Â\
>    Â--docdir=/doc                  \
> Â Â Â Â--host="$TARGET_TUPLE" Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â\
>    Â--enable-auth-digest              Â\
> Â Â Â Â--enable-deflate --with-z="$PLATFORM_STAGE" Â Â \
>    Â--enable-expires                Â\
>    Â--enable-headers                Â\
>    Â--enable-logio                 Â\
>    Â--enable-ssl=no                 \
> Â Â Â|| exit $?
>
> I suspect the correct answer for this issue is to switch over to
> OpenEmbedded or one of the other "build a distribution" methods,
> instead of the ct-ng "build a toolchain" model, but what I have works
> for now. Â:)
>
> Looks like I'm using ct-ng rev 181206f4bdbc from the repo. Config attached.
>
> Best regards,
> Tony