What is "no" application? nm?

[Leon Pollak]

On Tuesday, 1 בApril 2008, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> About the "no" application: With a probability of 90% this is the result
> of autoconf not finding a program which it thinks is not required. In
> that case, the program name may end up being the result from
>
> checking for nm ... no
>
> You might want to check your config.log and config.status files.
Thanks, Torsten.

Although I am very weak in all these autotools, your assumption sounds very 
promising.

I went to the build directory and searched for different combination of this 
phrase - nothing! Even search for " nm" (space and 'nm') gave no result, 
which seems to me very strange.

How can it be?
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Ralf Wrote:
> In 100% of all cases, I have seen so far, it has always been a screwed
> up $PATH.
Well, what do you mean by that? I mean - where and what to look for?

My PATH do contains /opt/rtems/bin in it and here is the "reduced" ls:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      31 Apr  1 10:29 
no -> /opt/rtems/bin/powerpc-rtems-nm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      34 Feb 17 10:35 
powerpc-rtems-ar -> /opt/rtems/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-ar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      34 Feb 17 10:35 
...
powerpc-rtems-g++ -> /opt/rtems/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-g++
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      35 Feb 17 10:35 
powerpc-rtems-gcc -> /opt/rtems/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      41 Feb 17 10:36 
powerpc-rtems-gcc-4.2.2 -> /opt/rtems/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-gcc-4.2.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      42 Mar  2 19:09 
powerpc-rtems-gdb -> /opt/gcc-4.1.1/bin/powerpc-rtems-gdb-6.7.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      34 Feb 17 10:36 
powerpc-rtems-ld -> /opt/rtems/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 leonp leonp      32 Mar 31 19:02 
powerpc-rtems-nm -> /opt/gcc/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-nm
....
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp 1058136 Dec 17 09:21 powerpc-rtems4.9-as
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp  210240 Dec 21 03:51 powerpc-rtems4.9-c++
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leonp leonp  709200 Dec 17 09:21 powerpc-rtems4.9-c++filt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leonp leonp  210240 Dec 21 03:51 powerpc-rtems4.9-cpp
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp  210240 Dec 21 03:51 powerpc-rtems4.9-g++
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp  207048 Dec 21 03:51 powerpc-rtems4.9-gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp  207048 Dec 21 03:51 powerpc-rtems4.9-gcc-4.2.2
...
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp 1026232 Dec 17 09:21 powerpc-rtems4.9-ld
-rwxr-xr-x 2 leonp leonp  721136 Dec 17 09:21 powerpc-rtems4.9-nm
...
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Note that with the first line (link no->nm) EVERYTHING works fine and all 
executables are created, while without it generation is obviously stopped 
after each EXE...

Leon
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