Hi

I'm trying to build a cross compiler toolchain to compile on my PC to Mac. I've hit an error on building binutils stage (first step). I was wondering if anyone can guess what the problem is.

Before I post the error log, I'll give a brief description of my process:
-My project folder is /common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler
-In this folder, I downloaded and unzipped binutils, gcc, gdb, uclibc
-I set $TARGET as powerpc-linux (shouldn't matter what the target OS is, since all kernels are POSIX right?)
-I set $PREFIX as /common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/powerpc-linux
-I add that to $PATH
-made a new folder build-binutils and ran configure from inside that folder. Configure went smoothly
-ran make all inside that folder. hit the error

error log:
Code:
[saistain XCompiler]$ setenv TARGET powerpc-linux
[saistain XCompiler]$ echo $TARGET
powerpc-linux
[saistain XCompiler]$ setenv PREFIX /common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/$TARGET
[saistain XCompiler]$ echo $PREFIX
/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/powerpc-linux
[saistain XCompiler]$ setenv PATH ${PATH}:$PREFIX/bin
[saistain XCompiler]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/java/bin:/opt /vlsi/synopsys/ai_bin:/opt/vlsi/synopsys/linux/syn/bin:/opt/vlsi/synopsys/hspice /linux:/opt/vlsi/synopsys/bin:/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/powerpc-linux/bin
[saistain XCompiler]$ mkdir build-binutils
[saistain XCompiler]$ cd build-binutils/
[saistain build-binutils]$ ../binutils-2.9.1/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX

[saistain build-binutils]$ make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/build-binutils/libiberty'
if [ -n "" ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then \
mkdir pic; \
else true; fi
touch stamp-picdir
echo "# !Automatically generated from ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/functions.def"\
"- DO NOT EDIT!" >needed2.awk
grep '^DEFVAR(' < ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/functions.def \
| sed -e '/DEFVAR/s|DEFVAR.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf "#ifndef NEED_\1\\n#define NEED_\1\\n#endif\\n" }|' \
>>needed2.awk
grep '^DEFFUNC(' < ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/functions.def \
| sed -e '/DEFFUNC/s|DEFFUNC.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf "#ifndef NEED_\1\\n#define NEED_\1\\n#endif\\n" }|' \
>>needed2.awk
gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/../include ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/dummy.c 2>/dev/null
make[1]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/build-binutils/libiberty'
make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2
yea if anybody has any idea at all it'll be greatly appreciated. thx for ur time!