smalltalk-3.2: installation failure on glibc system

[Bruno Haible]

Hi libtool guys,

I'm trying to install GNU smalltalk 3.2 on a bi-arch (i386, x86_64) system
in 32-bit mode. I used this configure command (already tested with dozens
of GNU packages):

$ ./configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/arch/x86-linux/gnu \
  CC="gcc -m32 -march=i586" CXX="g++ -m32 -march=i586" LDFLAGS="-m32" \
  CPPFLAGS=-Wall
...
$ make
...
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -m32 -march=i586 
-fomit-frame-pointer -g -O2 -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-format 
-Wpointer-arith -Wno-pointer-sign -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing 
-Wno-switch -fno-gcse -fstrict-aliasing  -version-info 7:2:0 -no-undefined 
-export-symbols-regex "^gst_.*" -m32 -o libgst.la -rpath 
/arch/x86-linux/gnu/lib gstpub.lo files.lo gst-parse.lo lex.lo str.lo tree.lo 
byte.lo comp.lo sym.lo dict.lo oop.lo opt.lo save.lo cint.lo heap.lo input.lo 
sysdep.lo callin.lo xlat.lo mpz.lo print.lo alloc.lo security.lo re.lo 
interp.lo real.lo sockets.lo events.lo ../lib-src/library.la  
../sigsegv/src/libsigsegv.la ../libffi/libffi.la 
../snprintfv/snprintfv/libsnprintfvc.la -lreadline   -lgmp -lpthread -lrt -lm 
libtool: link: link -dump -symbols  .libs/gstpub.o .libs/files.o 
.libs/gst-parse.o .libs/lex.o .libs/str.o .libs/tree.o .libs/byte.o 
.libs/comp.o .libs/sym.o .libs/dict.o .libs/oop.o .libs/opt.o .libs/save.o 
.libs/cint.o .libs/heap.o .libs/input.o .libs/sysdep.o .libs/callin.o 
.libs/xlat.o .libs/mpz.o .libs/print.o .libs/alloc.o .libs/security.o 
.libs/re.o .libs/interp.o .libs/real.o .libs/sockets.o .libs/events.o   
../lib-src/.libs/library.a ../libffi/.libs/libffi.a 
../snprintfv/snprintfv/.libs/libsnprintfvc.a |  | 
/arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libgst.exp
../libtool: eval: line 950: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
../libtool: eval: line 950: `link -dump -symbols  .libs/gstpub.o .libs/files.o 
.libs/gst-parse.o .libs/lex.o .libs/str.o .libs/tree.o .libs/byte.o 
.libs/comp.o .libs/sym.o .libs/dict.o .libs/oop.o .libs/opt.o .libs/save.o 
.libs/cint.o .libs/heap.o .libs/input.o .libs/sysdep.o .libs/callin.o 
.libs/xlat.o .libs/mpz.o .libs/print.o .libs/alloc.o .libs/security.o 
.libs/re.o .libs/interp.o .libs/real.o .libs/sockets.o .libs/events.o   
../lib-src/.libs/library.a ../libffi/.libs/libffi.a 
../snprintfv/snprintfv/.libs/libsnprintfvc.a |  | 
/arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libgst.exp'
make[3]: *** [libgst.la] Fehler 1
make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /data/bruno/build/smalltalk-3.2/libgst »
make[2]: *** [all] Fehler 2
make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /data/bruno/build/smalltalk-3.2/libgst »
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /data/bruno/build/smalltalk-3.2 »
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

The only particular thing about this system is that I have a recent version
of GNU coreutils installed, leading to
  $ which link
  /arch/x86-linux/gnu/bin/link
  $ LC_ALL=C link --version | head -n 1
  link (GNU coreutils) 8.4

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There are two problems here:

1) NM has been set to "link -dump -symbols". This is wrong. This setting should
   only be valid when the --host platform is win32 and the build platform is
   not cygwin. I have an /usr/bin/nm program in $PATH, that works fine for
   both 32-bit and 64-bit object files on my platform.
2) global_symbol_pipe has been set to empty.

When I google for
  "libtool eval" "link -dump -symbols"
I find dozens of reports of libtool errors that were due to the same
problem: NM being set to "link -dump -symbols" on platforms unrelated to win32
(Linux, MacOS, NetBSD etc.).

Bruno