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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:08 pm    Post subject: Error bootstrap Reply with quote

hi !

Im installing Gentoo PPC64 in a dual g5 (2ghz) and i've found this error compiling texinfo-4.8 in bootstrap ->

"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"

My CHOST -> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
CFLAGS -> -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=970 -mtarget=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
MAKEOPTS -> -j3

What should i do ?

THANKS :)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

HOT wrote:

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"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"

Those message is mostly a result of misspelled or invalid CFLAGS. Take a look here and try again.

Mfg

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Error bootstrap Reply with quote

HOT wrote:

CFLAGS -> -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mcpu=970 -mtarget=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec


-mtarget?? never heard of that one... :roll: please delete it from the list.

if you want, you can add "-mtune=970" to your CFLAGS. (normaly it shouldn't be needed, because -mcpu=970 sets all flags which are set by -mtune=970, but sometimes -mcpu=970 is filtered out...)
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I ran into this same problem installing on a JS20; evidently the documentation in /etc/make.conf.example is incorrect, or at least incorrect for the 970 chips.

Some packages fail on this, and some don't - I don't know whether it's due to stricter or more lax checking, but, for example, ncurses fails whereas patch & gcc both succeed. Very odd.

I'm very much glad I had good depth of Gentoo experience before I started working on the JS20; if I wasn't already dedicated to Gentoo, I would have found the experience extraordinarily frustrating and hugely complex and would have stopped long ago. If anyone is trying with one of these beasts and is having trouble, PM me & I'll try to help!
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PostPosted: Sat May 13, 2006 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Once they go, though, they're nice and fast!

I'm having problems getting vncserver to work - it seems to have an endianness problem when it tries to run. Have you seen this?
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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Never used a GUI on it, so I couldn't say. Right now the system is hosed & waiting for me to have time to fix it. What VNC are you using?
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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guero61 wrote:
I ran into this same problem installing on a JS20; evidently the documentation in /etc/make.conf.example is incorrect, or at least incorrect for the 970 chips.


hrm... I'll fix that! -mtarget is definetly not a correct compiler flag... I did not found -mtarget on http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.0/gcc/Option-Summary.html#Option-Summary !

EDIT: bug #133528
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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've had good luck with the following on the JS20 blades; just added the '-fforce-addr' in moving to the hardened profile.

Code:

CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=970 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr"
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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:03 pm    Post subject: why not use the 970 profile Reply with quote

There is a 970 profile which is very suitable for js20s:

/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/ppc/ppc64/2006.0/64bit-userland/970/

As for vnc, I have not been able to make it work either; least not vncserver. If anyone figures it out, lets get a bug written and a fix in portage.
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