Crosscompiling GCC: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES when checking dynamic linker characteristics

Question

I'm trying to compile gcc-4.8.3 for LFS by following this.

When using make, I get the following error:

checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Configure options:

../configure                                       \
    --target=$LFS_TGT                              \
    --prefix=/tools                                \
    --with-glibc-version=2.11                      \
    --with-sysroot=$LFS                            \
    --with-newlib                                  \
    --without-headers                              \
    --with-local-prefix=/tools                     \
    --with-native-system-header-dir=/tools/include \
    --disable-nls                                  \
    --disable-shared                               \
    --disable-multilib                             \
    --disable-decimal-float                        \
    --disable-threads                              \
    --disable-libatomic                            \
    --disable-libgomp                              \
    --disable-libmpx                               \
    --disable-libquadmath                          \
    --disable-libssp                               \
    --disable-libvtv                               \
    --disable-libstdcxx                            \
    --enable-languages=c,c++

where $LFS_TGT is x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu.

config.log on PasteBin.

Last few lines of output:

checking if /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    static flag -static works... no
checking if /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the /mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/lib/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/sys-include    linker (/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build/./gcc/collect-ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/c/Users/admin/Desktop/Projects/AssaultArchitecture/sources/gcc-4.8.3/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Answer 1

If you're building this on a x86_64 machine and you have x86_64 as target, you're not actually building a cross compiler.
You seem to be building an isolated stage1 compiler, so you have to add --disable-bootstrap flag. GCC by default disables bootstrap if your build target platform is not the native platform (a cross compiler).

Answer 2

Exact same issue is covered here:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2012-07/msg00018.html

It is suggested that an appropriate glibc may be missing (targeting x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu), and needs to be installed.

HTH.