[erlang-questions] Unable to build R12B on Debian

[Mikael Pettersson]

Aaron Lee writes:
 > If I configure with --disable-hipe, I don't seem to get that error. Any idea
 > what may go wrong?

The build log you sent me indicates a woefully incomplete build,
it didn't even list the build of core erts stuff like beam_emu.o.
So I have no information upon which to base any guesses.

Nuke the source tree, unpack a fresh one, ./configure and make it,
and save the entire build log.