Re: Building GNU Make 4.4.1 on zOS 28.00

It might be useful to see what config.log says because the compiler error
should be in there at the bottom probably.

I also don't have the ability to try compiling on zOS, unfortunately.

Regards,

Tim

On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 at 16:34, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2025-08-04 at 11:32 +0000, Prem Karthick via Users list for the
> GNU implementation of make wrote:
> > checking whether we are cross compiling... configure: error: in
> > `/u/data002/pkarthi/MAKE-441/make-4.4.1':
> > configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
> > If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
> > See `config.log' for more details
> >
> > Is this platform supported? Please share your inputs.
>
> I have not tried to build GNU Make on zOS.
>
> You will have to investigate to see what the problem is; as you can see
> from the info above, it appears that your compiler is not working
> properly.
>
> That is, the configure script builds a small test program with the
> compiler you provided (ibm-clang), but the resulting binary does not
> run properly.
>
> Again as the message says, you will need to look at config.log and find
> the error messages for more details.
>
>