Re: m68k fails to build with crosstool

[Syed Faisal Akber <faisal at akber dot net>]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Peter Barada wrote:
> checking version of ld... 2.11.93.0.2, bad
> checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
> checking for m68k-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking version of gcc... 3.3, ok
> checking for gnumake... no
> checking for gmake... gmake
> checking version of gmake... 3.79.1, ok
> checking for gnumsgfmt... no
> checking for gmsgfmt... no
> checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
> checking version of msgfmt... 0.11.1, ok
> checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
> checking version of makeinfo... 4.1, ok
> checking for sed... sed
> checking version of sed... 3.02, ok
> checking for autoconf... autoconf
> checking whether autoconf works... no
> configure: error:
> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed get around this error?
>
> I'm wondering if I need to create a new native binutils and put that
> in my path(as well as the compiler), and *then* attempt to run
> crosstool...

When you build binutils for a cross-platform, you get two copies of the
binaries, such as m68k-elf-as and as.  Set your path to look at the m68k
version of as before it gets to the native version.

$prefix/m68k-elf/bin:...:/usr/bin

This is the quickest way around this issue.

Regards,
Faisal


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