build errors --bfd directory

[sean yang]

Niklaus,
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I did not keep the log. I `make clean' and 
'make' again, and it worked for some reason.

Sean

>From: Niklaus <niklaus@gmail.com>
>To: "sean yang" <seanatpurdue@hotmail.com>
>CC: binutils@sourceware.org
>Subject: Re: build errors --bfd directory
>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:03:15 +0530
>
>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'
>.........

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