1 <qandaentry id="asm-global-directive">
2 <question><para>Glibc fails with "cannot determine asm global directive".</para></question>
3 <answer><para>The error,
4 "configure: error: cannot determine asm global directive",
5 while configuring glibc indicates a problem with the binutils installation.
6 Likely it isn't statically linked.
7 (You can check with "file $LFS/static/bin/as".)
8 In any case, try reinstalling binutils.