On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Merijn van de Klundert <merijn...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear member or developer of binutils, > > I've tried to install gnu ld on my macbook (I need this to compile a certain > makefile, which containts options that are not recognized by the linker of > snow leopard. This makefile runs smooth on a linux distribution with GNU ld). > > basically, everything in binutils compiles (i.e. configure, make and make > install work without error). For example running these in the top directory > works and do so as well in for example the gas or gold directory. > > I can run configure and make flawless in the ld directory, however make > install gives an error: > install: ldscripts/*: No such file or directory > I tried to make a softlink to this directory (which is empty) and it doesn't > help. > However, in ld/bin is now a file called ld > When I try to use this as linker I get the error message: > > /Users/merijnvandeklundert/PhD/Castor/Linker/binutils-2.23.2/ld/bin/ld: > unrecognised emulation mode: > Supported emulations: > > So it seemed to have failed still. (also I tried running make all-ld from the > top directory, which runs but doesn't seem to create an executable). > > I looked into installing it via macports, but some macports webpage seems to > indicate that gnu ld simply won't run on mac: > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/24471 > Is this true or am I doing something wrong? That's correct. GNU ld hasn't been ported to target darwin. Tristan. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils