Bug 140688 – emerge sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 fails on ppc with: this configuration requires -mlong-double-128 IBM extended format support

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Markus Tacker 2006-07-16 12:47:37 UTC]

[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 [2.3.6-r3] USE="nls nptl* nptlonly* -build -glibc-omitfp -hardened -profile" 0 kB

...
checking for long double... yes
checking size of long double... 8
running configure fragment for sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/elf
checking for powerpc32 TLS support... yes
running configure fragment for sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc
checking whether powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -mcpu=750 -pipe -mtune=powerpc -freorder-blocks -O2 -mlong-double-128 uses IBM extended format... no
checking whether powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -mcpu=750 -pipe -mtune=powerpc -freorder-blocks -O2 supports -mabi=ibmlongdouble... no
configure: error: this configuration requires -mlong-double-128 IBM extended format support

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r3 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1539:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 939:   Called src_compile
  glibc-2.4-r3.ebuild, line 1179:   Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
  glibc-2.4-r3.ebuild, line 251:   Called glibc_do_configure 'nptl'
  glibc-2.4-r3.ebuild, line 941:   Called die

!!! failed to configure glibc
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.


# emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/ppc/2005.1/ppc/G3, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 ppc 740/750
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
ccache version 2.3 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mtune=powerpc"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -mpowerpc-gfxopt -mtune=powerpc"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/"
LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://krotok/gentoo-portage/"
USE="ppc X aac arts artswrappersuid berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cli crypt dlloader dri dv dvd dvdread eds emboss esd fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal ieee1394 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libwww motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt readline reflection samba session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_r128 video_cards_ati video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-16 12:49:37 UTC]

You need gcc-4.1 (set, not only installed).


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138967 ***