Re: build errors --bfd directory

[Niklaus <niklaus at gmail dot com>]

On 3/27/06, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
> On 27 March 2006 17:48, sean yang wrote:
>
> > Here is what I did to make a binutils tool and the corresponding error
> > messages. How to fix it?
> >
> >
> > home>mkdir mybinutils
> > home>cd binutils-2.16.1
> > binutils-2.16.1>./configure --prefix=/home/mybinutils
> > binutils-2.16.1>make
> > ......
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/binutils-2.16.1/bfd'
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> > -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2   -o libbfd.la -rpath /home/mybinutils/lib
> > -release 2.16.1  archive.lo archures.lo bfd.lo bfdio.lo bfdwin.lo cache.lo
> > coffgen.lo corefile.lo format.lo init.lo libbfd.lo opncls.lo reloc.lo
> > section.lo syms.lo targets.lo hash.lo linker.lo srec.lo binary.lo tekhex.lo
> > ihex.lo stabs.lo stab-syms.lo merge.lo dwarf2.lo simple.lo archive64.lo `cat
> > ofiles`
> > ar cru .libs/libbfd.a  archive.o archures.o bfd.o bfdio.o bfdwin.o cache.o
> > coffgen.o corefile.o format.o init.o libbfd.o opncls.o reloc.o section.o
> > syms.o targets.o hash.o linker.o srec.o binary.o tekhex.o ihex.o stabs.o
> > stab-syms.o merge.o dwarf2.o simple.o archive64.o elf32-i386.o elf32.o elf.o
> > elflink.o elf-strtab.o elf-eh-frame.o dwarf1.o i386linux.o aout32.o
> > efi-app-ia32.o peigen.o cofflink.o elf32-gen.o cpu-i386.o trad-core.o
> > ar: archive.o: No such file or directory
>
>   The question is, why doesn't archive.o exist?  Is there anything earlier in
> the logfile (in the bits you replaced with '......') where you can see it
> trying to compile archive.c to generate archive.o (not archive.lo)?  If so,
> what went wrong?  If not, maybe something went wrong at configure time...

I just tried removing the actual archive.o and touching archive.o in
bfd. i was getting the following errors which i was supposed. 
Assuming that you didn't get such errors what might have happened in
your case is that you had archive.o until the ar stage or sometime
before, it got removed . If you can post the complete log of the
configure and make , it would be very helpful to debug.
Maybe you can try doing some chown or chmod to archive.o  and then
capture the log and see what removes it .

../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a(srec.o):(.rodata+0x7c): undefined reference to
`_bfd_generic_mkarchive'
../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a(srec.o):(.rodata+0x8c): undefined reference to
`_bfd_write_archive_contents'
.........