general ports problem

[Garrett Cooper]

On Dec 27, 2008, at 9:03, cwt <marshc187 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Dec 27, 2008, at 5:10, t-u-t <marshc187 at gmail.com <mailto:marshc187 at gmail.com 
>> >> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Garrett Cooper  
>>> <yanefbsd at gmail.com <mailto:yanefbsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    On Dec 26, 2008, at 22:57, Peter Jeremy
>>>    <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
>>>    <mailto:peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        On 2008-Dec-27 02:38:41 +0100, t-u-t <marshc187 at gmail.com
>>>        <mailto:marshc187 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>            On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Garrett Cooper
>>>            <yanefbsd at gmail.com <mailto:yanefbsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>                A config.log file would help too..
>>>
>>>            oh, i thought that would be too long. i have attached one
>>>            from a port i just
>>>            chose at random now.
>>>
>>>
>>>        Unfortunately, it got deleted by mailman.  Can you post one
>>>        of the
>>>        shorter logs somewhere (eg pastebin.ca <http://pastebin.ca>).
>>>         Also, what does 'gcc -V'
>>>        report and can you manually compile (eg) a "hello world"?
>>>
>>>
>>>    He's using the stock compiler and it appears that ld is screwed
>>>    up because it fires back an error when linking. I'll forward you
>>>    the log in my next email.
>>>    Thanks,
>>>    -Garrett
>>>
>>>
>>> i tried hello world, here's the output.
>>>
>>> $ gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello
>>> /usr/bin/ld:built in linker script:2: syntax error
>>> -- 
>>> ce la vie
>>
>> Yup. Your binutils is hosed :(.
>> -Garrett
> thanks for your help.
> i tried to give buildworld a try a moment ago before anything, but  
> also got the above ld error.
>