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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello, Many thanks for your reply. On 12-Jul-97 Charles Brain wrote: >I had a similar problem to this, what it is I believe is that it can't >find the ar program, >either because it is looking in the wrong directory or using the wrong >filename, or >you haven't built binutils to produce an ar. > >In my case it was the wrong file name and I fixed it by using >--program-prefix = i386-pc-go32. >but your target is different. > >It may also be necessary to add the path to the ar file in target/bin. > I do not believe the problem is with finding the ar program -- rather, it is the libc.a that ar is looking for in /lib: ar x /lib/libc.a Ovfork.o _exit.o _sigvec.o abort.o access.o cerror.o chmod.o chown.o close.o creat.o dup.o dup2.o errlst.o execl.o execle.o execv.o execve.o execvp.o fork.o fstat.o getdtablesize.o getpid.o getrusage.o gettimeofday.o ieee_globals.o ioctl.o isatty.o kill.o link.o lseek.o open.o pipe.o popen.o read.o sbrk.o setitimer.o sigblock.o signal.o sigpause.o sigsetjmp.o sigsetmask.o sigtramp.o sigvec.o sleep.o start_float.o stat.o time.o times.o umask.o unlink.o utime.o utimes.o wait.o wait3.o wait4.o write.o rem.o multiply.o umultiply.o ar: /lib/libc.a: No such file or directory On my system, libc.a is in /usr/lib, but creating a link from /lib/libc.a -> /usr/lib/libc.a puts the compilation in a loop as it cannot find the symbols it requires in the libc.a archive. My next question is: what does the compilation want with libc.a at this stage? Which libc.a does it want? A Linux one or a Sun one? Thanks again, Sami ======================================================= Sami Lempinen * ssl@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~ssl/ * http://www.snowman.sci.fi/ "I want to die like my grandfather, peacefully in my sleep, not screaming in terror like his passengers." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM8sRFyRFo0lpa/91AQH1SwP+J3feeVQCwlVE+yMNM9VtEk5EJij1FjGz azMa11FlGA9SHbMCS+HxHLvwYfKDQunHpY5FPwaWDP95aJV+xSFFVEMI9HwGkUFO +zm+rWvSFM2e8KPuE5kGGHKib1dGRv6Llg1UW3ep9WeyF3vyQazSVpvBjdRYtj4H S14oIuqKG+A= =hQiZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----