[U-Boot] buildman: using wrong libgcc.a

[Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>]

Hello Simon,

On 03-11-14 22:14, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30 October 2014 14:57, Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl> wrote:
>> Hello Steve,
>>
>> On 30-10-14 21:42, Steve Rae wrote:
>>> Hmmmm -- maybe it would be better to specify the entire path for the
>>> CROSS_COMPILE, and not rely on the PATH to find the cross compile tools:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/buildman/toolchain.py b/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
>>> index 27dc318..58c7b1f 100644
>>> --- a/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
>>> +++ b/tools/buildman/toolchain.py
>>> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ class Toolchain:
>>>           self.cross = os.path.basename(fname)[:-3]
>>>           pos = self.cross.find('-')
>>>           self.arch = self.cross[:pos] if pos != -1 else 'sandbox'
>>> +        self.cross = fname[:-3]
>>>
>> A bit off topic, but is it possible to stop adding these magic 3
>> constants. strlen("clang") != 3. strlen("cc") isn't either. Anyway
>> I am aware buildman is already full with it, so I am fine with
>> one more (for now).
> This should be isolated to Toolchain. I'd be happy to have a fix that
> solves this once and for all. What is needed?

not that much I think. What would be needed is to store the compiler
name in the toolchain object and use the python strlen equivalent on
that instead of the hardcoded threes. And eventually pass the correct
values to CC and HOSTCC.

When I tried that, subprocess was barfing some (at least for me not
easily, [no I don't recall which one exactly] explainable) error, so I gave
up and created a script called *-gcc invoking clang and all was fine 
again ;)

So yes, it would be nice if buildman did not make such an assumption.
It is not strictly clang related as well, at least on FreeBSD you can 
install
many gcc compilers, which will be named gcc44, gcc45.. gcc5 etc.

As already mentioned, it is not related to this patch, it adds just another
hardcoded magic 3 value.

Regards,
Jeroen