GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES

[Tom Kirkpatrick <tom@settopsolutions.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to cross-compile gdb 6.4 for an x86 target but do not seem  
to be able to get past configuration, which dies with the following:

| NOTE: make SUBDIRS=intl mmalloc libiberty opcodes bfd sim gdb etc  
utils
| make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tom/stv/oe-stv/build/tmp-stv/ 
work/i586-stv-linux/gdb-6.4-r0/build-i586-stv-linux'
| mkdir -p -- ./libiberty
| Configuring in ./libiberty
| configure: loading site script /home/tom/stv/oe-stv/ 
org.openembedded.dev/site/i586-linux
| configure: creating cache ./config.cache
| checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of  
Makefiles... no
| checking for makeinfo... makeinfo --split-size=5000000
| checking for perl... perl
| checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
| checking host system type... i586-stv-linux-gnu
| checking for i586-stv-linux-ar... i586-stv-linux-ar
| checking for i586-stv-linux-ranlib... i586-stv-linux-ranlib
| checking for i586-stv-linux-gcc... ccache i586-stv-linux-gcc-3.4.4 - 
march=c3 -mtune=c3
| checking for suffix of object files... o
| checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
| checking whether ccache i586-stv-linux-gcc-3.4.4 -march=c3 - 
mtune=c3 accepts -g... yes
| checking for ccache i586-stv-linux-gcc-3.4.4 -march=c3 -mtune=c3  
option to accept ANSI C... none needed
| checking how to run the C preprocessor... i586-stv-linux-gcc-3.4.4 -E
| checking whether ccache i586-stv-linux-gcc-3.4.4 -march=c3 - 
mtune=c3 and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
| checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
| checking for inline... inline
| checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... (cached) no
| checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
| checking for sys/file.h... yes
| checking for sys/param.h... yes
| checking for limits.h... yes
| checking for stdlib.h... yes
| checking for malloc.h... yes
| checking for string.h... yes
| checking for unistd.h... yes
| checking for strings.h... yes
| checking for sys/time.h... yes
| checking for time.h... yes
| checking for sys/resource.h... yes
| checking for sys/stat.h... yes
| checking for sys/mman.h... yes
| checking for fcntl.h... yes
| checking for alloca.h... yes
| checking for sys/pstat.h... no
| checking for sys/sysmp.h... no
| checking for sys/sysinfo.h... yes
| checking for machine/hal_sysinfo.h... no
| checking for sys/table.h... no
| checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes
| checking for sys/systemcfg.h... no
| checking for stdint.h... yes
| checking for stdio_ext.h... yes
| checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
| checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
| checking whether errno must be declared... no
| checking for egrep... grep -E
| checking for ANSI C header files... yes
| checking for sys/types.h... yes
| checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
| checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
| checking for string.h... (cached) yes
| checking for memory.h... yes
| checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
| checking for inttypes.h... yes
| checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
| checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
| checking for int... yes
| checking size of int... (cached) 4
| checking for uintptr_t... yes
| checking for a 64-bit type... uint64_t
| checking for pid_t... yes
| checking for library containing strerror... configure: error: Link  
tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
| make[1]: *** [configure-libiberty] Error 1

I get the same error when trying 6.3 too.  Has anyone seen this before?

many thanks
Tom