Error when building binutils

[H.J. Lu]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 12:37 AM, Benson Muite <benson.muite@ut.ee> wrote:
>
> On 09/22/2018 08:46 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Benson Muite <benson.muite@ut.ee> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Am trying to build binutils on cent os 7. My configuration command is:
>>
>> Which version of binutils?  I have no problems with master nor 2.31 branch
>> on CentOS 7.
>>
> Thanks for the confirmation. Both 2.31 and master fail when building own
> gmp, mpc, mpfr, isl, zlib, flex,  bison and texinfo using gcc 5.2.0:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I have no problem building binutils master branch with GCC 5.5.0 on CentOS 7.
Please check your config.h in  the gas build directory.  I have.

/* Define to 1 if you want to generate ELF common symbols with the STT_COMMON
   type by default. */
#define DEFAULT_GENERATE_ELF_STT_COMMON 0

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H.J.