compiling gcc - cannot find output from flex; giving up - gcc

I am trying to compile gcc-4.9RC or gcc-4.8.2 on Debian (6 or 7).
There is flex 2.5.35 installed and I even compiled my own flex 2.5.39.
I confirmed it generates a yy.c output from a simple .l file.
Also I learned at gcc documentation, that flex shouldn't be necessary when compiling from a release (which the gcc-4.8.2 is).
Nevertheless I always get this in some internal configure after running make:
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for flex... flex
checking lex output file root... configure: error: cannot find output from flex; giving up
make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-gmp] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `***/gcc-bin-8'
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `***/gcc-bin-8'
make: *** [all] Error 2
It is configured with:
../gcc-4.8.2/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --with-cloog --prefix=/home/***/gcc-4.8.2
I have no idea what should I try more.

This error is generated whilst building gmp (a pre-requisite of gcc). It's a known bug in gmp present in 4.8.3 Ref :gmp bug. If you ran contrib/download_prerequisites, you would get gmp 4.8.3 by default. Workaround is to edit gmp-4.8.3/configure.in & gmp-4.8.3/configure and change
M4=m4-not-required
for
M4=m4

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Compile Ruby from source on AIX 7.1

I am trying to compile Ruby 2.4.5 from source using gcc compiler on AIX 7.1. The configure works fine, but the make fails giving an error C is not a recognized flag. Anybody faced the same issue and managed to compile ruby on AIX 7.1?
Steps followed:
1) ./configure --disable-install-doc CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-maix64 -mminimal-toc" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-maix64 -mminimal-toc" NM="nm -X64" AR="ar -X64" LDFLAGS="-maix64" EXTLDFLAGS=" -- works perfectly fine
2) make - fails with the below error
make: Not a recognized flag: C
usage: make [-einqrst] [-k|-S] [-d[A|adg[1|2]mstv]] [-D variable] [-f makefile] [-j [jobs]] [variable=value ...] [target ...]
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
Update :
Switching to GNU make gives the below error:
Making all in man
make[5]: Entering directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1/man'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[5]: Leaving directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1/man'
make[5]: Entering directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1'
CC src/prep_cif.lo
CC src/types.lo
CC src/raw_api.lo
CC src/java_raw_api.lo
CC src/closures.lo
CC src/powerpc/ffi_darwin.lo
../../../../ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1/src/powerpc/ffi_darwin.c: In function 'ffi_p rep_args':
../../../../ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1/src/powerpc/ffi_darwin.c:112:17: warning: un used variable 'abi' [-Wunused-variable]
const ffi_abi abi = ecif->cif->abi;
^
CPPAS src/powerpc/aix.lo
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
Makefile:1335: recipe for target 'src/powerpc/aix.lo' failed
make[5]: *** [src/powerpc/aix.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1'
Makefile:1596: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1'
Makefile:730: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle/libffi-3.2.1'
Makefile:370: recipe for target 'libffi-3.2.1/.libs/libffi_convenience.a' failed
make[2]: *** [libffi-3.2.1/.libs/libffi_convenience.a] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst/ext/fiddle'
exts.mk:212: recipe for target 'ext/fiddle/all' failed
make[1]: *** [ext/fiddle/all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/test/ruby-2.4.5/tst'
uncommon.mk:220: recipe for target 'build-ext' failed
make: *** [build-ext] Error 2
The issue is that you are using AIX's built-in copy of make and it does not support the command-line option -C. That option is available in GNU make.
If you run make -v and do not see output like the following then you are not using GNU make:
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Run the command which make and it will return either /usr/bin/make or /opt/freeware/bin/make (or a similar path outside of /usr/bin):
If it returns /usr/bin/make then you do not have GNU make installed on your system and will need to follow one of several tutorials to get it installed on AIX.
If it returns /opt/freeware/bin/make then you do have GNU make installed, but it's not reflected in $PATH. You can add it to your path temporarily while you compile Ruby by running export PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH before you run the make command.
Update:
I would encourage you to open a separate question for your current build trouble, since the original question was about the -C flag for make not working on AIX, and now you have a separate question about running GNU make with an entirely different set of issues and possible solutions.
That said, it's possible you may be able to resolve your issue by starting over and running ./configure LIBTOOL='/usr/bin/libtool --tag=CC' (or whatever your path is to libtool). This is based off the following messages:
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
If this doesn't work then you'll probably have to edit the Makefile by looking for those specific invocations of libtool and append --tag=CC to them one by one until you're able to progress beyond these errors.
Both solutions are assuming that the only code being compiled is C. To my knowledge, everything in MRI that needs to be compiled is written in C, but if anything is written in C++ then the libtool invocations would require --tag=CXX. You can read more about tags here.

Using mingw-w64 and ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static, make fails and Makefile CC variable looks wrong

I am new to compiling.
I am trying to compile iperf3 for Windows 10 because there is no official Windows distribution of iperf3 and for the learning experience. I am trying to do so on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux feature via Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, also for the learning experience.
I installed mingw-w64, which should give me the proper compiler and environment necessary for cross-compiling:
sudo apt-get install mingw-w64
This put two directories into my /usr directory:
i686-w64-mingw32
x86_64-w64-mingw32
It also put a bunch of things that look like compilers into /usr/bin.
I unzipped the .tar.gz file from iperf3 and navigated into it. Then, I run ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32.static and it completes without errors.
I note that the output of the command has a worrisome line: checking for i686-w64-mingw32.static-gcc... no
I note that the Makefile's CC variable is set to gcc, which doesn't sound like the proper compiler.
Then, I run make. It fails with errors:
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [iperf3] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/snip/iperf3/iperf-3.1.4/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/snip/iperf3/iperf-3.1.4/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
I also see the line: libtool: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i686-w64-mingw32.static shared libraries; building static only
I think that the ./configure is not working correctly since it appears to have not found the right compiler for my --host argument and put it in the Makefile.
What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
I changed the command to ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 per comments and it completes without error. But no makefile is created so make yields make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
What am I doing wrong, now?
EDIT 2:
Looks like the ./configure actually is failing. Last line of its output is nanosleep() required for timing operations., which seems to mean that its missing a library for nanosleep.
How do I get nanosleep?
mingw doesn't support nanosleep. So programs using it cannot be compiled using mingw-w64.

Make error when compiling GMP on Windows

I'm attempting to compile GMP 5.1.3 with MinGW on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine as a prerequisite to setting up pycrypto. To configure GMP I used ./configure --prefix=C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/gmp-5.1.3. When I enter the make command, I get the error:
../libtool: line 1109: lib: command not found
make[2]: *** [libmpn.la] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving director '/c/Python27/Lib/site-packages/gmp-5.1.3/mpn'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/c/Python27/Lib/site-packages/gmp-5.1.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I've been fishing around Google and reviewing the instructions for GMP to no avail. Found lots of maybe similar problems, but nothing that directly relates. Though I have the sneaking suspicion that the problem is right in front of me and I've just been staring at the screen too long.

Compiling GCC 4.7.3 for i386-elf support on Cygwin

I am trying to compile GCC for Cygwin with support for targeting i386-elf so I can compile some simple OSes (search Benu, by l30nard0, on Github). I've successfully compiled the binutils for i386-elf, and compiled all of GCC's floating-point numbers dependencies.
Problem is, it says windows.h can not be found. I do have w32api successfully installed, and tried including each of those one at a time in the include path for GCC, but none of them work. If I try any of them, I get so many errors and warnings that not all will show up in the Cygwin console. The dozens upon dozens of warnings are most if not all unused parameter.
Does anyone know where the problem might lie?
I've wasted the last three entire days of my life trying to get Linux Mint set up with everything I want, but for reasons I shan't go into I gave up on that. I'd love to be able to get just one thing to work so I can enjoy my life again. :) Thanks!
BTW: The configure arguments I used were --target=i386-elf --enable-threads=win32 --enable-languages=c,c++ Was I supposed to use --enable-targets instead?
And here's part of the log:
In file included from ../../../gcc/libgcc/gthr.h:150:0,
from ../../../gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2.c:38:
./gthr-default.h:541:21: fatal error: windows.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
../../../gcc/libgcc/static-object.mk:17: recipe for target 'unwind-dw2.o' failed
make[2]: *** [unwind-dw2.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from ../../../gcc/libgcc/gthr.h:150:0,
from ../../../gcc/libgcc/unwind-dw2-fde.c:38:
./gthr-default.h:541:21: fatal error: windows.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
../../../gcc/libgcc/static-object.mk:17: recipe for target 'unwind-dw2-fde.o' failed
make[2]: *** [unwind-dw2-fde.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/Sean/gccbuild/i386-elf/libgcc'
Makefile:10055: recipe for target 'all-target-libgcc' failed
make[1]: *** [all-target-libgcc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/Sean/gccbuild'
Makefile:870: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
Remove the --enable-threads=win32 flag; it is intended to specify thread support on the target system, not the build system.

bigloo scheme "make test" fails for pthreads

I am trying to build from the bigloo scheme's latest source 3.8a on a Linux Mint 12 (lisa), which is Ubuntu 11 (Oneric) derivative:
Here is my "configure":
./configure --enable-pthread --enable-fthread --enable-ssl --enable-sqlite --enable-web --enable-multimedia --enable-mail --enable-calendar --enable-pkgcomp --enable-pkglib --enable-gstreamer --enable-text --enable-srfi1 --enable-srfi27 --enable-crypto --enable-openpgp --enable-phone --enable-alsa --enable-mpg123 --enable-csv --jvm=yes
** Configuration summary **
Release features:
release number.............. 3.8a
supported backends.......... native:yes JVM:yes
default backend............. native
additional APIs............. pthread fthread sqlite web multimedia mail calendar pkgcomp pkglib text srfi1 srfi27 packrat crypto openpgp phone mpg123 csv
native threads support...... yes
openssl support............. no
sqlite support.............. sqltiny + sqlite
dynamic libraries support... yes
Bee configuration:
bee support................. partial
emacs....................... emacs
emacs brand................. emacs23
Implementation details:
tuning...................... standard
cc.......................... gcc
gc.......................... custom (bigloogc-3.8a, v731)
Java version................ 1.3
bignum support.............. gmp (5.0.1)
Directories where Bigloo will be installed:
binaries.................... /usr/local/bin
libraries................... /usr/local/lib
files directory............. bigloo/3.8a
standard zip................ /usr/local/lib/bigloo/3.8a
standard dll................ /usr/local/lib/bigloo/3.8a
manual pages................ /usr/local/man/man1
info documentation.......... /usr/local/info
lisp files..................
temporary build dir......... /tmp
The "make" succeeds; however "make test" fails for pthread
*** pthread **********
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/liew/Downloads/bigloo3.8a/api/pthread/recette'
/home/liew/Downloads/bigloo3.8a/bin/bigloo -c -call/cc -O3 -fcfa-arithmetic -q recette.scm -o recette.o
/home/liew/Downloads/bigloo3.8a/bin/bigloo -O3 -fcfa-arithmetic -q recette.o -o recette
/usr/bin/ld: recette: hidden symbol `pthread_atfork' in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread_nonshared.a(pthread_atfork.oS) is referenced by DSO
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [recette] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/liew/Downloads/bigloo3.8a/api/pthread/recette'
make[1]: *** [c-test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/liew/Downloads/bigloo3.8a'
make: *** [test] Error 2
According to this excellent post about this pthread issue, we need to rearrange the command line parameters while linking pthread library. However, I was unable to find the required Makefile code - probably because it relies on the Makefile default that links the library in a certain way.
Any help will be appreciated.
The problem is probably fixed in newer versions of bigloo.

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