[kaffe] building for powerpc

Jim Pick jim@kaffe.org
10 Jul 2002 08:36:16 -0700


On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 12:40, Mathieu Dube wrote:
> Ok,
> 	having read the mail from Mark and Janice Juszczec. I tried this:
> CC=/usr/local/bin/powerpc-snmc-linux-gnu-gcc
> AS=/usr/local/bin/powerpc-snmc-linux-gnu-as 
> LD=/usr/local/bin/powerpc-snmc-linux-gnu-gcc
> ./configure --target=powerpc-linux 
> --with-includes=/usr/local/powerpc-snmc-linux-gnu/include/ 
> --with-libraries=/usr/local/powerpc-snmc-linux-gnu/lib/ --with-engine=jit3
> 
> but I get this error:
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot 
> create executables.
> 
> its weird coz I compiled some test programs that came with those 
> cross-compiling tools so Im wondering what Im doing wrong...

The configure script tried to compile a trivial program to see if your
cross-compile works, and it failed.  Take a look at the generated
config.log file - that should show you what it tried to compile, and the
error message.

Cheers,

 - Jim