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Error Messages Indicating Configuration Problems

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4.3.2: Error Messages Indicating Configuration Problems

If you see error messages like the following,

Then it is likely that one or more of your gnu tools is already configured locally in its source tree. You can check for this by searching for the config.status file in the various tool source trees. The following command does this for the binutils source:

find binutils-2.17 -name config.status -print

The solution for this is to execute the command make distclean in each of the GNU tools root source directory. This should remove all generated files including Makefiles.

This situation usually occurs when you have previously built the tool source for some non-RTEMS target. The generated configuration specific files are still in the source tree and the include path specified during the RTEMS build accidentally picks up the previous configuration. The include path used is something like this:

-I../../binutils-2.17/gcc -I/binutils-2.17/gcc/include -I.

Note that the tool source directory is searched before the build directory.

This situation can be avoided entirely by never using the source tree as the build directory -- even for


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