AMD64 configure error

AMD64 configure error

[James Lockie]

checking if start is defined by the compiler... no
checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no
configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined

# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: 
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3/work/gcc-4.1.1/configure 
--prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1 
--includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/include 
--datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1 
--mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man 
--infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info 
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/include/g++-v4 
--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec 
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib 
--disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions 
--disable-multilib --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp 
--disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared 
--enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)

Re: AMD64 configure error

[Marco Gerards]

James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> writes:

> checking if start is defined by the compiler... no
> checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no
> configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined

The reason this happens is that the 64 bits compiler is used to test
these things, while we do not need this 64 bits compiler.  This is
*VERY* annoying.

Does someone know how we can fix this properly?  And please don't come
with the add libraries bullshit, I won't do this.  GRUB 2 used to
compile fine to me, after which it was broken about 6 months ago.
This makes it very hard/annoying to me to work on GRUB 2 because my
primary systems are x86_64.

--
Marco

Re: AMD64 configure error

[Thomas Schwinge]

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Hello!

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> writes:
> > checking if start is defined by the compiler... no
> > checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no
> > configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined
> 
> The reason this happens is that the 64 bits compiler is used to test
> these things, while we do not need this 64 bits compiler.  This is
> *VERY* annoying.
> 
> Does someone know how we can fix this properly?

If I could get (shell) access to such a 64-bit system, I could have a
look.


Regards,
 Thomas

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Re: AMD64 configure error

[Marco Gerards]

Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Thomas,

> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:03:58PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> James Lockie <bjlockie@lockie.ca> writes:
>> > checking if start is defined by the compiler... no
>> > checking if _start is defined by the compiler... no
>> > configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined
>> 
>> The reason this happens is that the 64 bits compiler is used to test
>> these things, while we do not need this 64 bits compiler.  This is
>> *VERY* annoying.
>> 
>> Does someone know how we can fix this properly?
>
> If I could get (shell) access to such a 64-bit system, I could have a
> look.

Thanks a lot for this offer!  At the moment I am working on something
for work and have to reboot quite often.  But after this is done I
will give you an account on this box (I guess this will be after the
weekend).

--
Marco