[Buildroot] libstdc++ with external toolchain

[Buildroot] libstdc++ with external toolchain

[Marco Braga]

Hello,

I am successfully using buildroot-2009.08 with external toolchain from
CodeSourcery, but I have a problem with the "Build/install c++
compiler and libstdc++?" option that sets BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP.
Basically the libstdc++ is not installed because buildroot expects
this to be in "lib" directory of the toolchain instead of "usr/lib"
(as is in CodeSourcery's toolchain for ARM).

I'd like to understand if this is the expected behavior or it is a bug.

Looking deeper into the issue, I've traced it to
"toolchain/external-toolchain/ext-tool.mk". If BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
is set, then libstdc++.so is added to EXTERNAL_LIBS variable:

ifeq ($(BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP),y)
EXTERNAL_LIBS+=libstdc++.so
endif

But then EXTERNAL_LIBS are searched only in "lib" dir and not in "usr/lib":

$(Q)for libs in $(EXTERNAL_LIBS); do \
  $(call copy_toolchain_lib_root,$(SYSROOT_DIR),$$libs,/lib,$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_STRIP));
\
done

The result is tha copy_toolchain_lib_root only looks into "/lib" and
since the library is not found it is not copied.

Regards,
Marco

[Buildroot] libstdc++ with external toolchain

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Marco,

Le Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:51:40 +0200,
Marco Braga <marco.braga@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> I am successfully using buildroot-2009.08 with external toolchain from
> CodeSourcery, but I have a problem with the "Build/install c++
> compiler and libstdc++?" option that sets BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP.
> Basically the libstdc++ is not installed because buildroot expects
> this to be in "lib" directory of the toolchain instead of "usr/lib"
> (as is in CodeSourcery's toolchain for ARM).
> 
> I'd like to understand if this is the expected behavior or it is a
> bug.

Supporting all sort of external toolchains is difficult, and I
initially started adding external toolchain support to Buildroot by
testing toolchains generated by Crosstool-NG. Supporting Codesourcery
toolchains is on my TODO-list.

Could you submit a bug report so that I can keep track of this issue,
and fix it when I'll work again on Codesourcery toolchains support ?

Thanks!

Thomas
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