Thursday, April 14, 2022

[SOLVED] Compiling gcc-4.1

Issue

Unfortunately I'm forced to use gcc-4.1 and I'm using debian wheezy. Since gcc-4.1 is not in repository I'm trying to build gcc from sources.

But I'm getting compiling error:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o' is incompatible with i386 output
/usr/bin/ld: i386:x86-64 architecture of input file `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o' is incompatible with i386 output

It looks that ld is picking wrong version of libraries, but I checked my /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and it contains those files:

/usr/lib32/libc.a
/usr/lib32/libc.so
/usr/lib32/crtn.o
/usr/lib32/crti.o
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crtn.o
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o

And ld should have access to them

~$ echo $LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu:/usr/lib32/

So I have no idea where the problem is.


Solution

I managed to work around the problem.

Run configure with:

./configure --disable-multilib ...

But than I encountered another problem with makeinfo, if you have newer version >=4.10 than it might not be found by configure. So simple fix in generated makefile worked for me:

Change this line:

MAKEINFO = /home/lecopivo/Downloads/gcc412/gcc412/gcc-4.1.2/missing makeinfo

To this:

MAKEINFO = makeinfo

I found this helpful.



Answered By - tom
Answer Checked By - Mildred Charles (WPSolving Admin)
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