[FreeVMS] Trying to compile the linker

[BERTRAND Joël]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Roger Tucker wrote:
> Starting at the top of the HOWTO.
> 
> I'm using CC version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-13) You stay to build the Linker.
> So I do a:
>   Make download-linker.  I got this to work after installing ncftp.
>   Make build-linker.  I get the following error:
> 
> ...
> checking for library containing strerror... Configure: error: Link tests are
> not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
> make[2]: *** [configure-libiberty] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '...freevms/linker/src/build'
> 
> Doesn't sound like this worked.

	I shall try ;-)

> Can you help me...

	Roger,

	I use a debian testing linux box with the same compiler. Can you
	build a very simple program ? Configure script seems to hang because
	gcc can not make executables.

	Try to build a "hello world" program and repost the so-abtained
	output.

	Regards,

	JKB