general ports problem

[cwt]

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:
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>>     On Dec 26, 2008, at 22:57, Peter Jeremy
>>     <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
>>     <mailto:peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>> wrote:
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>>         On 2008-Dec-27 02:38:41 +0100, t-u-t <marshc187 at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:marshc187 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>             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.