Hidden error(?) during build

[michael]

Building powerpc-405-linux-gnu I noticed one error message (I've elided 
the path for clarity):

[ERROR]    .../powerpc-405-linux-gnu/build/build-libc/elf/ld.so.1: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

This is building on Ubuntu; building on RHEL I get the slightly more 
illuminating message (but not flagged as an error):

[ALL  ]    /bin/sh: .../powerpc-405-linux-gnu/build/build-libc/elf/ld.so.1: cannot execute binary file

The line in the log file above this error message is equivalent to the 
following code (refactored and elided to make it actually readable):


CT=...
PP=$CT/powerpc-405-linux-gnu/build/build-libc
SR=$CT/target/powerpc-405-linux-gnu/powerpc-405-linux-gnu/sys-root

LIBPATH=$PP:$PP/math:$PP/elf:$PP/dlfcn:$PP/nss:$PP/nis:$PP/rt:$PP/resolv:\
$PP/crypt:$PP/nptl

for spec in $(
        LC_ALL=C GETCONF_DIR=/dev/null $PP/elf/ld.so.1 \
            --library-path $LIBPATH $PP/posix/getconf \
            _POSIX_V6_WIDTH_RESTRICTED_ENVS); do
    /usr/bin/install -c $PP/posix/getconf $SR/usr/libexec/getconf/$spec.new
    mv -f $SR/usr/libexec/getconf/$spec.new $SR/usr/libexec/getconf/$spec
done


Ah: now all is clear.  *Somebody* is trying to execute the target ld.so.1 
-- that's not going to work, now is it?


I don't know whether this actually matters, and whether the offending code 
is in crosstool-ng itself, or is part of glibc (I guess my money isss with 
glibc).  Still, it's a bit bothersome.  The built toolchain actually seems 
to work just fine -- I think the only side effect here is that 
sys-root/usr/libexec/getconf is empty -- but something odd to notice!

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