Compilng libgcc xgcc error

Question

I'm trying to install cross compiler, this tutorial, and when I want to make libgcc I just put make all-target-libgcc in my terminal. This make throws error

checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for i586-elf-gcc...  /usr/src/build-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/src/build-gcc/./gcc/         -B/usr/local/cross/i586-elf/bin/ -B/usr/local/cross/i586-elf/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/cross/i586-elf/include -isystem /usr/local/cross/i586-elf/sys-include   
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/usr/src/build-gcc/i586-elf/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1

In config.log I found

Target: i586-elf
Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.0/configure --target=i586-elf --prefix=/usr/local/cross --        disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ --without-headers : (reconfigured) ../gcc-4.8.0/configure --target=i586-elf --prefix=/usr/local/cross --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ --without-headers : (reconfigured) ../gcc-4.8.0/configure --target=i586-elf --prefix=/usr/local/cross --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++ --without-headers
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.8.0 (GCC) 
configure:3358: $? = 0
configure:3347:  /usr/src/build-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/usr/src/build-gcc/./gcc/ -    B/usr/local/cross/i586-elf/bin/ -B/usr/local/cross/i586-elf/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/cross/i586-elf/include -isystem /usr/local/cross/i586-elf/sys-include    -V >&5
xgcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
xgcc: fatal error: no input files

In fact xgcc don't have '-V' option. I'm searching the way how to compile libgcc.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Here's the problem: Before you attempted to build libgcc as you described, you built an extreme bare-bones cross compiler. Now, part of the standard tests that the configure script runs is to test the compiler to see if it will produce a working executable file under normal conditions. Your bare bones compiler can't. Fortunately, for libgcc, you don't need to produce an executable, just a static library libgcc.a . The problem is that the stupid GNU autoconf-generated script doesn't realize that.

I encountered this same problem and devised a very ugly workaround. You need to comment out a section of the libgcc/configure file in your gcc source directory. Here's the section I commented out for my version; do something similar to yours:

At line 3484:

{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_file" >&5
$as_echo "$ac_file" >&6; }
# BEGIN PHILLIP EDIT
# if test -z "$ac_file"; then :
  # $as_echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
# sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5

# { { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&5
# $as_echo "$as_me: error: in \`$ac_pwd':" >&2;}
# { as_fn_set_status 77
# as_fn_error "C compiler cannot create executables
# See \`config.log' for more details." "$LINENO" 5; }; }
# fi
ac_file='a.out'
# END PHILLIP EDIT
ac_exeext=$ac_cv_exeext

Hope this helps.