[U-Boot-Users] Re: [uClinux-dev] uboot compilation error when using the toolchain arm-elf-tools from uClinux.org

[David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>]

Jivin Shawn Jin lays it down ...
> Hi,
> 
> I checked out u-boot code from CVS today and tried to compile it for
> ARM IntegratorCP board. The cross toolchain I used is arm-elf-tools
> downloaded from uClinux.org. Unfortunately I got the following
> compilation error.
> 
> arm-elf-gcc -g  -Os   -fno-strict-aliasing  -fno-common -ffixed-r8
> -mshort-load-bytes -msoft-float
>  -D__KERNEL__ -DTEXT_BASE=0x01000000 -I/u/code/denx/u-boot/include
> -fno-builtin -ffreestandin
> g -nostdinc -isystem /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/arm-elf/2.95.3/include
> -pipe  -DCONFIG_ARM -D__ARM__ -
> mapcs-32 -march=armv4 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -c -o cfi_flash.o cfi_flash.c
> In file included from cfi_flash.c:48:
> /u/code/denx/u-boot/include/asm/processor.h:52: parse error before `1'
> /u/code/denx/u-boot/include/asm/processor.h:52: warning: no semicolon
> at end of struct or union
> /u/code/denx/u-boot/include/asm/processor.h:54: parse error before `}'
> /u/code/denx/u-boot/include/asm/processor.h:58: field `insn' has incomplete type
> 
> The code is extracted from the header file processor.h.
> 
> 51> union debug_insn {
> 52>      u32     arm;
> 53>      u16     thumb;
> 54> };
> 55>
> 56> struct debug_entry {
> 57>        u32                     address;
> 58>        union debug_insn        insn;
> 59> };
> 
> However I really don't think there is any syntax error. It might be a
> toolchain problem?

I think,  at least for that version of the toolchain,  it implicitly
defines "arm",  and I suspect it defines it to be "1",  thus the errors
you are seeing.  You may be able to add a -Uarm to eth build line,

Cheers,
Davidm

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