Greetings Jan, > Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 at 9:11 PM > From: "Jan Kratochvil" <jan.kratoch...@redhat.com> > To: daggs <da...@gmx.com> > Cc: elfutils-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > Subject: Re: prevernt -m32 testing in configure > > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:10:40 +0200, daggs wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I'm trying to compile elfutils-0.159 on a 64 bit system. > > in the configure stage I'm getting to this situation: > > checking whether gcc -m32 makes executables we can run.. and it fails. > > > > I assume that this is because I don't have 32bit libs on my system. > > now here is my issue, I cannot install 32bit libs, infact I need libelf to > > be 64 bit only. > > That -m32 configure check is there only for the purposes of the testsuite. > Ignore that and all should work. If it does not work the problem is most > probably unrelated to the -m32 issue. > > I have removed /lib/libc.so from my system and it all behaves as expected: > > checking whether gcc -m32 makes executables we can run... no > configure: WARNING: not running biarch tests, gcc -m32 does not work > + > make check will: > SKIP: run-backtrace-native-biarch.sh > SKIP: run-backtrace-native-core-biarch.sh > (2 tests were not run) > > This is all perfectly valid. > > > Jan >
thanks for the help, here is a good possibility that the issue is mine, I just remembered that I have applied some patches that I'm not sure I need, will try vanilla, hope it works.
