Maybe he's good in programming embedded stuff, this has purely to do with Linux specific builds and nothing to do with coding/decoding gsm stuff.
I never meant otherwise in my previous message. But basic knowledge / problem solving of the build system is a requirement IMHO, especially in this project (that includes both host and target code with even some shared code between the two).
I also looked up his history on the various mailing lists before posting this and this is not the first build problem with GSM related projects so I would expect him to learn from previous experience.
Also, when I see a message with :
---- zaki@zaki-desktop:~/gnuarm-4.0.2/bin$ file ./arm-elf-gcc ./arm-elf-gcc: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped zaki@zaki-desktop:~/gnuarm-4.0.2/bin$ uname -a Linux zaki-desktop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux ----
And he still asks what's wrong ? An embedded programmer that doesn't know he can't just run binaries from one architecture onto another architecture ...
By the way, he can always learn...
I know, that's why there is a "quite just yet" at the end. That's exactly what I implied: that he learns that first and then come back.
Cheers,
Sylvain