Re: new binutils broken for amd64

On 2004-06-16 22:03, Sean McNeil <sean_at_mcneil.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 20:13, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > I believe that most likely there is a config.guess issue here.  It would
> > appear that the linker isn't setting
> >
> > NATIVE=yes
> > USE_LIBPATH=yes
> >
> > for freebsd/amd64.  These should be set when host and target are the
> > same.  This is causing all sorts of compilation problems.
>
> Actually, this appears to be a problem with the make mechanism.
>
> If I do
>
> make buildworld && make installworld
>
> it creates an improper ld.  If I do
>
> cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld
> make clean
> make
> make install
>
> Then I get an ld that works properly.
>
> Very odd.

Hmmm, are you by any chance using a /usr/obj of older builds?
What happens if you start over with a completely clean /usr/obj?

If 'make clean' or 'make cleandir' is what it takes to fix things, stale
object files from /usr/obj could be the source of all troubles.

- Giorgos