Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile anything: libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as linker script - glibc 2.4 upgrade related?

[Thomas Andrè Skarsvåg]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On one machine, I upgraded to glibc 2.4, and since that time,
> I cannot compile anything anymore :( I always get errors
> like this:
>
> checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> In the config.log, I find:
>
> configure:2398: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:2401: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer   -Wl,-z,now conftest.c  >&5
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../libc.so: file format not recognized; treating as
> linker script
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../libc.so:5: syntax error
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> That's "somewhat" annoying... :(
>
> Any ideas how I can fix this issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexander Skwar
>
Hello.

Try editing your make.conf to use CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -02 -pipe 
-fomit-frame-pointer" instead of '-march=prescott'

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