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Bug 185005 - GCC Fails to compile grub, gives the error "C compiler cannot create executables"
Summary: GCC Fails to compile grub, gives the error "C compiler cannot create executab...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GCC Porting (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High major
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Reported: 2007-07-11 22:05 UTC by Lex
Modified: 2007-07-11 22:17 UTC (History)
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Build log (build.log,4.32 KB, text/plain)
2007-07-11 22:07 UTC, Lex
Details
Config log (config.log,9.14 KB, text/plain)
2007-07-11 22:08 UTC, Lex
Details

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Description Lex 2007-07-11 22:05:15 UTC
When I try to emerge grub it fails to compile.  When it is doing the configuration I get the following error:

>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3/work/grub-0.97 ...
 * econf: updating grub-0.97/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating grub-0.97/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/lib --datadir=/usr/lib/grub --exec-prefix=/ --disable-auto-linux-mem-opt --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3/work/grub-0.97/config.log

!!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1621:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 973:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
  ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
  grub-0.97-r3.ebuild, line 85:   Called econf '--libdir=/lib' '--datadir=/usr/lib/grub' '--exec-prefix=/' '--disable-auto-linux-mem-opt'
  ebuild.sh, line 578:   Called die

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-0.97-r3/temp/build.log'.


Here is my emerge --info

Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-suspend2-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-suspend2-r5 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:30:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en en_US en_US.ISO-8859-15"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl akode alsa amd64 apache2 arts audio audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups divx dri dvd dvdr emerald esd firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gmedia gpm gtk gtk2 iconv idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog java kde lcms libg++ mad midi mmx motif mozilla mozilla-plugin mp3 mudflap nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt readline realmedia reflection session sound spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wmp xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev i810 vesa vga"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

And here is my make.conf

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example.
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
# This should not be changed unless you know exactly what you are doing.  You
# should probably be using a different stage, instead.
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
USE="X gtk -gnome kde qt dvd alsa cdr audio arts akode dvdr -gstreamer xine nsplugin mozilla-plugin esd aac audiofile vorbis ogg sound mp3 nas apache2 xml firefox mozilla unicode xcomposite offensive mmx sse sse2 cpudetection bzip2 tiff idn lcms java xscreensaver real usb ppds -eds nptl nptlonly zeroconf foomaticdb xmms gtk2 imlib motif flac divx gmedia realmedia wmp xmms theora opengl emerald png mad"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
LANG="en en_US en_US.ISO-8859-15"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev i810 vesa vga"



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge grub
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Configure failed

Expected Results:  
Successful compilation
Comment 1 Lex 2007-07-11 22:07:39 UTC
Created attachment 124595 [details]
Build log

This is the build.log file
Comment 2 Lex 2007-07-11 22:08:02 UTC
Created attachment 124596 [details]
Config log

This is the config.log
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-07-11 22:17:20 UTC
you cannot compile grub on a non-multilib system -- use grub-static