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Re: Build Error - gcc must provide the <cpuid.h> header


Could you also please tell me where is

contest.c located ? Its obviously not in the glibc sources that I
downloaded. So where is it coming from ?

On 5/21/16, Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan.mailing@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guess you are right. Something is wrong with my toolchain. The test
> program you gave did not compile.
>
> But when I did a
> find /usr/ -name cpuid.h
>
> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-32-generic/include/config/x86/cpuid.h
>
> I managed to find the above file. What bothers me is that, it was
> found under x86 while I am clearly trying to compile for x86_64.
>
> Thanks for shedding light on why my configuration process is failing.
>
> Do you have any ideas why this might be happening ?
>
> On 5/21/16, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty
>> <sreyan.mailing@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have no idea on how to read the config.log. All I can understand is
>>> that from lines 19-28 I am getting "unknown" probably because I am on
>>> a VM.
>>
>> configure:635: checking cpuid.h usability
>> configure:635: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
>> conftest.c:84:19: error: cpuid.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> You lack cpuid.h. It looks like your installation is broken.
>>
>> Are you compiling locally? If yes, then what does `find /usr -name
>> cpuid.h` show?
>>
>> The following program should compile just fine:
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <cpuid.h>
>> int main (void) { return 0; }
>>
>> gcc -o test test.c
>>
>> If this fails, then your toolchain is broken.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
>>
>


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