ld fails to build for target

[Andrija Radicevic]

>
>>
>> Since the error message that you get from configure.tgt show that it does 
>> not recognise "e1-coff" it follows that this translation from "e1-coff" 
>> into "e1-unknown-coff" is not being performed.  You need to check what is 
>> happening in the ld/configure script around these lines:
>>
>>     # Canonicalize the secondary target names.
>>     result=`$ac_config_sub $targ_alias 2>/dev/null`
>>     if test -n "$result"; then
>> targ=$result
>>     else
>> targ=$targ_alias
>>     fi
>>
>>     . ${srcdir}/configure.tgt
>>
>
> I have found the part in my configure file, dough it looks a little bit 
> different
>
>    # Canonicalize the secondary target names.
>    result=`${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} $ac_config_sub $targ_alias 2>/dev/null`
>    if test -n "$result"; then
> targ=$result
>    else
> targ=$targ_alias
>    fi
>
>    . ${srcdir}/configure.tgt
>
> obviously it must end up in the else branch (targ=$targ_alias) as you 
> already said. Now I have to figure out why this happens.
> Thanks for your help.
>

Hi,

It turnd out that
${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} evaluates to /bin/sh
and
$ac_config_sub to /bin/sh ../../binutils-2.16/ld/../config.sub
which together obiously results with an awkward construct

After I have removed ${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}  from that particular line in 
the ld/configure script, ld was built. Now, I wonder what went wrong? I 
suspect that the autoconf (2.59) and automake (1.9.2) versions I was using 
messed the thing up. I haven't built those myself, they came with the Fedora 
Core 3 distribution I have installed on my machine.

regards

Andrija