Strange name for cross binutils binaries

Strange name for cross binutils binaries

[Martin Dietze]

Hi,

 just trying another build of OE for nylon/mtx-1 (which is
TARGET_ARCH "mipsel"). Compiling gcc-cross fails with this
message: 

| make[2]: mipsel-linux-ar: Command not found

Looking at tmp/cross, I find that the cross ar got installed
under this name: tmp/cross/mipsel/bin/mipsel-linux-mipsel-linux-ar

This does not seem right, or is there anything which I need to
adapt due to global bbclass/configuration changes?

Cheers,

Martin

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Re: Strange name for cross binutils binaries

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Martin Dietze <di@fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  just trying another build of OE for nylon/mtx-1 (which is
> TARGET_ARCH "mipsel"). Compiling gcc-cross fails with this
> message:
>
> | make[2]: mipsel-linux-ar: Command not found
>
> Looking at tmp/cross, I find that the cross ar got installed
> under this name: tmp/cross/mipsel/bin/mipsel-linux-mipsel-linux-ar
>
> This does not seem right, or is there anything which I need to
> adapt due to global bbclass/configuration changes?

Well nylon distro is using quite old tools and I dont think anybody
has been using
gcc 3.3 binutils 2.14 and glibc 2.3.3 combo.

Thats your problem. Now if you can help in testing this distro I can
certainly put new toolchain in
but that could mean more changes.


>
> Cheers,
>
> Martin
>
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Re: Strange name for cross binutils binaries

[Martin Dietze]

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On Tue, March 24, 2009, Khem Raj wrote:

> Well nylon distro is using quite old tools and I dont think anybody
> has been using
> gcc 3.3 binutils 2.14 and glibc 2.3.3 combo.
> 
> Thats your problem. Now if you can help in testing this distro I can
> certainly put new toolchain in
> but that could mean more changes.

Yes I can. Actually I am in the progress of getting nylon to run
again with the current OE toolchain (after leaving 4G I did not
even have my own cube, but this has changed now).

Now just to simplify things for me, can you give me one or two
more hints - I can't believe that "mipsel-linux-mipsel-ar" is
right, or is it? I.e., is the name under which it is installed
from binutils wrong or does gcc-cross-initial look for it under
the wrong name?

Cheers,

Martin

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Re: Strange name for cross binutils binaries

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

You might want to derive nylon from minimal or just reuse minimal.

(Or Angstrom).

Most of the time what you are after is not really a distro, but a set of
task and image packages.

Cheers,

:M:

Re: Strange name for cross binutils binaries

[Martin Dietze]

On Wed, March 25, 2009, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:

> You might want to derive nylon from minimal or just reuse minimal.
> 
> (Or Angstrom).
> 
> Most of the time what you are after is not really a distro, but a set of
> task and image packages.

Thanks for this hint. Have there been any significant changes
during the last 30 days? My last build was only on Feb 20, and
I did not have any such problems then. Unless it is really
necessary I would like to change as little as possible now in
order to get a usable setup to get started with.

Cheers,

Martin

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Re: Strange name for cross binutils binaries

[Martin Dietze]

On Tue, March 24, 2009, Khem Raj wrote:

> Well nylon distro is using quite old tools and I dont think anybody
> has been using
> gcc 3.3 binutils 2.14 and glibc 2.3.3 combo.

It seems like I found the culprit; in binutils 2.14 there is a
double --program-prefix=.... argument in the configure options.
This resulted in two consecutive sed substitutions for the
executable program's prefixes.
I call this a bug regardless how old version 2.14 is. Actually,
binutils have always had target-arch-related issues, I thus do
not like the idea of upgrading just because the recipes are
broken.

I hope I can come up with a set of patches soon.

Cheers,

Martin

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