[Bug binutils/10376] New: configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (off_t), 77

I'm trying to compile binutils-2.19.1 with gcc-4.4.0. It fails with the
following error message:

checking size of off_t... configure: error: in
`/home/booleandomain/tmp/lfs/sources/binutils-build/bfd':
configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (off_t), 77
See `config.log' for more details.
make[1]: *** [configure-bfd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/booleandomain/tmp/lfs/sources/binutils-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I configured binutils as follows: --prefix=/tools --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Looking at bfd/config.log it seems the problem is due to the fact binutils is
looking in /tools for libz.so.1 (it doesn't exist there). If I install zlib in
/tools and then try again building binutils, everything works.

I think this is a bug because binutils should look at /lib64/libz.so.1 instead.

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           Summary: configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (off_t), 77
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.19
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: booleandomain at gmail dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu


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------- Additional Comments From booleandomain at gmail dot com  2009-07-07 20:51 -------
Created an attachment (id=4043)
 --> (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=4043&action=view)
bfd/config.log


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------- Additional Comments From booleandomain at gmail dot com  2009-07-08 15:19 -------
It seems the problem is related to the fact I have in CFLAGS the following
option: -Wl,--dynamic-linker,/tools/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

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------- Additional Comments From booleandomain at gmail dot com  2009-07-08 17:22 -------
I just tried binutils cvs, but the problem persists.

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------- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com  2009-07-08 17:52 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> It seems the problem is related to the fact I have in CFLAGS the following
> option: -Wl,--dynamic-linker,/tools/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

If you remove it, will build work?

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------- Additional Comments From booleandomain at gmail dot com  2009-07-08 19:32 -------
Yes, but I need that option because I'm building a GNU/Linux toolchain inside of
/tools, and packages have to link to the dynamic linker inside of it.

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------- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com  2009-07-08 19:46 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> Yes, but I need that option because I'm building a GNU/Linux toolchain inside of
> /tools, and packages have to link to the dynamic linker inside of it.

That is not supported. You may try the sysroot option.

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------- Additional Comments From booleandomain at gmail dot com  2009-07-08 20:46 -------
I tried both --with-build-sysroot=/tools and --with-sysroot=/tools
(undocumented?) but I get for example:

$ ldd binutils/ar
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff2b5ff000)
libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc61e1e0000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc61de85000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc61e3f6000)

This is not going to work inside a chrooted environment. Perhaps I must build
binutils statically...

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------- Additional Comments From booleandomain at gmail dot com  2009-07-09 19:55 -------
It seems the problem is not related to CFLAGS containing
-Wl,--dynamic-linker,/tools/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, but to the fact I
probably installed glibc in /tools in the wrong way. In fact, I configured in
with --prefix=/tools instead of installing it with install_root=/tools. I can't
see why, but it seems there is a difference between the two.

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