Re: [PATCH 0/7] gcov kernel support

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>]

>> Sounds like your toolchain was built without biarch support, but  
>> you're
>> using it for the 32-bit parts of the kernel anyway.  Which works as  
>> long
>> as you're not using any libraries, but now you need libgcov.a .
>
> ok..
>
>> What does
>>
>> /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/
>> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -v
>>
>> say?
>
> y:/home/akpm>  
> /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ 
> powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu
> Configured with:  
> /home/axboe/crosstool-0.43/build/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc 
> -4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/gcc-4.1.0/configure  
> --target=powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu  
> --host=x86_64-host_unknown-linux-gnu  
> --prefix=/opt/crosstool/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/powerpc64-unknown-linux- 
> gnu

> --disable-multilib

That's the culprit.  I believe 4.1.0 enables multilib by default on  
PowerPC
compilers that target 64-bit by default (the patch for that is dated  
almost
a full year before the 4.1.0 release).  I have no idea why crosstool
disables this support; perhaps there were some problems with some older
GCC version (or this one, even; it's ancient as well).

>> Or, what does
>>
>> find
>> /opt/crosstool/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu/ 
>> 4.1.0/
>> -name libgcov.a
>>
>> say?  (It should usually find three versions: 64-bit, 32-bit, 32-bit  
>> no
>> float).
>
> Only a single hit:

Right, as expected.

>> You *can* build with a non-biarch compiler, but then you need to point
>> the kernel build system at a 32-bit toolchain to use for the 32-bit
>> parts (via CROSS32_COMPILE).
>
> Jens built this one, using crosstool.  It is
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/power64-cross.tar.bz2
>
> It was all working happily until gcov came along :(

You were lucky, yes.  If your compiler would have been just a little
bit older it wouldn't have been able to build 32-bit at all.

Do you have a separate 32-bit PowerPC compiler?  If so, just set
CROSS32_COMPILE to it; if not, you'll need a new toolchain.  In
that case, it's probably worthwhile to upgrade to 4.1.2 at least...


Segher