Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] gcc-runtime: Fix build when using gold

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On 7/14/22 5:15 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> If gold is enabled as the default linker, it errors trying to link
> to our dummy library empty file and this turns off things which should
> be present in libstdc++.
> 
> For example, _GLIBCXX_HAVE_S_ISREG isn't defined and HAVE_S_ISREG in
> libstdc++-v3/config.h isn't set properly.
> 
> Instead of just creating an empty file, create an empty elf binary
> instead which addresses the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
> index c39a0caf8a7..7e920df2d34 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/gcc-runtime.inc
> @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ do_configure () {
>   	# libstdc++ isn't built yet so CXX would error not able to find it which breaks stdc++'s configure
>   	# tests. Create a dummy empty lib for the purposes of configure.
>   	mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}/dummylib
> -	touch ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.so
> +	touch ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/dummylib.c
> +	${CC} ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/dummylib.c -shared -o ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.so

you can improve it a little by using a one liner

${CC} -x c /dev/null -shared -o ${WORKDIR}/dummylib/libstdc++.so

>   	for d in libgcc ${RUNTIMETARGET}; do
>   		echo "Configuring $d"
>   		rm -rf ${B}/${TARGET_SYS}/$d/
> 
> 
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