Re: mips linux glibc-2.3.3 build - Unknown ABI problem

[David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>]

T. P. Saravanan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I try to build glibc-2.3.3 on mips linux - it breaks as shown below:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> sara@eyeore: [over] ~/build/glibc/objdir3$ make
> make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" CVSOPTS="" -C ../glibc-2.3.3 objdir=`pwd` all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3'
> make  -C csu subdir_lib
> .
> .
> .
> make  -C gmon subdir_lib
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/gmon'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/gmon'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/gmon'
> gcc -mabi=32 mcount.c -c -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Winline 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -g -mips32   
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer   -I../include -I. 
> -I/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir3/gmon -I.. -I../libio  
> -I/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir3 -I../sysdeps/mips/elf 
> -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips 
> -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux 
> -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread 
> -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix 
> -I../linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32 
> -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux 
> -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman 
> -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv 
> -I../sysdeps/unix/mips/mips32 -I../sysdeps/unix/mips -I../sysdeps/unix 
> -I../sysdeps/posix -I../sysdeps/mips/mips32 -I../sysdeps/mips 
> -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 
> -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32 -I../sysdeps/mips/fpu -I../sysdeps/ieee754 
> -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -nostdinc -isystem 
> /home/sara/usr/local/lib/gcc/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.2/include 
> -isystem /home/sara/build/linux/linux-2.4.25mips/include 
> -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h  -DPIC     -o 
> /home/sara/build/glibc/objdir3/gmon/mcount.o -MD -MP -MF 
> /home/sara/build/glibc/objdir3/gmon/mcount.o.dt
> In file included from mcount.c:40:
> ../sysdeps/mips/machine-gmon.h:91:3: #error "Unknown ABI"
> mcount.c:180: error: parse error before "PTR_SUBU_STRING"
> make[2]: *** [/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir3/gmon/mcount.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/gmon'
> make[1]: *** [gmon/subdir_lib] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> 
> System details:
> 
> Host type: mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu
> System: Linux eyeore 2.4.25 #20 Wed Sep 29 09:01:29 IST 2004 mips unknown
> Architecture: mips
> 
> Addons: linuxthreads
> Build CFLAGS: -mips32 -O2 -g
> Build CC: gcc
> Compiler version: 3.4.2
> Kernel headers: 2.4.25
> Symbol versioning: yes
> Build static: yes
> Build shared: yes
> Build pic-default: yes
> Build profile: yes
> Build omitfp: no
> Build bounded: no
> Build static-nss: no
> 
> sara@eyeore: [over] ~/tmp$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> system type             : ITE QED-4N-S01B
> processor               : 0
> cpu model               : Nevada V3.1  FPU V3.0
> BogoMIPS                : 299.00
> wait instruction        : yes
> microsecond timers      : yes
> tlb_entries             : 48
> extra interrupt vector  : yes
> hardware watchpoint     : no
> VCED exceptions         : not available
> VCEI exceptions         : not available
> sara@eyeore: [over] ~/tmp$
> 
> 
> 
> Some experimentation with "gcc -E" revealed that in the compiler I am using
> (by default),
> 
> _MIPS_SIM is set to 1
> _ABI032 is set to 1
> _ABIN32 is not defined
> _ABI64 is not defined
> 
> I tried compiling a "hello world" program with "gcc -mabi=32" and it works.
> 
> If I try "gcc -mabi=n32" it breaks at the linking stage as below:
> 
> sara@eyeore: [over] ~/tmp$ gcc -mabi=n32 -o v v.c
> /home/sara/usr/local/lib/gcc/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.2/../../../../mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
> /tmp/ccnz0jlk.o: ABI is incompatible with that of the selected emulation
> /home/sara/usr/local/lib/gcc/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.2/../../../../mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
> failed to merge target specific data of file /tmp/ccnz0jlk.o
> /home/sara/usr/local/lib/gcc/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.2/../../../../mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
> BFD 2.15 assertion fail elfxx-mips.c:1899
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> sara@eyeore: [over] ~/tmp$
> 
> What should I do to fix the build?

get the most recent machine-gmon.h from glibc CVS.

You will probably find a problem linking libc at a later step.  But the
newer machine-gmon.h will fix this problem.

I have sucessfully build with gcc-3.3.1, still working on 3.4.2

David Daney.