Build Error - gcc must provide the <cpuid.h> header

[Sreyan Chakravarty]

Okay I understand that this is a pretty common problem, but one that
has different causes. I am on a Oracle VirtualBox running Ubuntu Hardy
Heron x86_64 as my guest OS. The reason I am on such an old OS is
because I have an application,which was written for Heron, that I need
to make workable.

I need GLIBC version 2.14 so I have downloaded the sources from -:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.14.tar.gz

(is it the correct version that I want ?)

Okay so now I am trying to build GLIBC version 2.14 on my virtual
system but when I run configure in my build directory I keep getting
the following error message:

checking cpuid.h usability... no
checking cpuid.h presence... no
checking for cpuid.h... no
configure: error: gcc must provide the <cpuid.h> header

I think (correct me if I am wrong) that configure is thinking that I
want to cross-compile GLIBC. It may be because on my virtual system :
uname -p gives the output of "unknown" (since this is a virtual OS)
(you can verify in the attached log)

I have also not done anything to my include/ folder, should I delete
its contents before running configure ?

Need help please. I have attached my config.log and the configure
output for reference.

Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
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checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
configure: running configure fragment for add-on libidn
configure: running configure fragment for add-on nptl
checking for assembler gnu_indirect_function symbol type support... no
checking whether .text pseudo-op must be used... yes
checking for assembler global-symbol directive... .globl
checking for assembler .type directive prefix... @
checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/x86_64/elf nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64 nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/x86_64 nptl/sysdeps/unix sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/x86_64/fpu sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch nptl/sysdeps/x86_64 sysdeps/x86_64 sysdeps/wordsize-64 sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether as is GNU as... yes
checking whether ld is GNU ld... yes
checking for as... as
checking version of as... 2.18.0.20080103, ok
checking for ld... ld
checking version of ld... 2.18.0.20080103, ok
checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
checking for gcc... gcc
checking version of gcc... 4.2.4, ok
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checking for make... make
checking version of make... 3.81, ok
checking for gnumsgfmt... no
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checking for makeinfo... no
checking for sed... sed
checking version of sed... 4.1.5, ok
checking for autoconf... no
checking LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable... ok
checking whether GCC supports -static-libgcc... -static-libgcc
checking for bash... /bin/bash
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checking for mawk... mawk
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
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checking for signed size_t type... no
checking for libc-friendly stddef.h... yes
checking whether we need to use -P to assemble .S files... no
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checking for .symver assembler directive... yes
checking for ld --version-script... yes
checking for .previous assembler directive... yes
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checking whether __attribute__((visibility())) is supported... yes
checking for broken __attribute__((visibility()))... no
checking for broken __attribute__((alias()))... no
checking whether to put _rtld_local into .sdata section... no
checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... yes
checking for libunwind-support in compiler... no
checking for -z nodelete option... yes
checking for -z nodlopen option... yes
checking for -z initfirst option... yes
checking for -z relro option... yes
checking for -Bgroup option... yes
checking for libgcc_s suffix... 
checking for --as-needed option... yes
checking whether --noexecstack is desirable for .S files... yes
checking for -z combreloc... yes
checking for -z execstack... yes
checking for -fpie... yes
checking for --hash-style option... yes
checking for -fno-toplevel-reorder -fno-section-anchors... yes
checking for -fstack-protector... yes
checking for -fgnu89-inline... yes
checking whether cc puts quotes around section names... no
checking for assembler .weak directive... yes
checking whether CFI directives are supported... yes
checking for ld --no-whole-archive... yes
checking for gcc -fexceptions... yes
checking for __builtin_expect... yes
checking for __builtin_memset... no
checking for redirection of built-in functions... yes
checking for __thread... yes
checking for tls_model attribute... yes
checking for libgd... no
checking for is_selinux_enabled in -lselinux... no
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking size of long double... 16
running configure fragment for sysdeps/x86_64/elf
checking for x86-64 TLS support... yes
running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/pthread
checking for forced unwind support... yes
checking for C cleanup handling... yes
running configure fragment for sysdeps/pthread
running configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... (cached) /bin/grep
checking for egrep... (cached) /bin/grep -E
checking installed Linux kernel header files... 2.0.10 or later
checking for kernel header at least 2.4.0... ok
checking for symlinks in /usr/local/glibc2.14/include... ok
running configure fragment for nptl/sysdeps/x86_64
checking for .cfi_personality and .cfi_lsda pseudo-ops... yes
running configure fragment for sysdeps/x86_64
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... (cached) /bin/grep
checking for egrep... (cached) /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for memory.h... (cached) yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking cpuid.h usability... no
checking cpuid.h presence... no
checking for cpuid.h... no
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