On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:55:59PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 03:45:58AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > Attached is a patch to fix most of the compilation problems for > > > util-vserver. Steve Langasek tested this on sparc and it worked. Builds > > > still fail on at least hppa, powerpc, and mipsel, since the dietlibc > > > linking fails. See #300926 for some discussion about this.
> > > I didn't try giving the -Os option to the diet command at the linking > > > stage, since I didn't see an easy way to do it from util-vserver's > > > debian/rules. > > > I have so far failed to debug the linking problem to any successful > > > degree. Gerrit, perhaps you could give Ola a helping hand with the > > > linking issue? > > <vorlon> liw: if you invoke it as "diet -v gcc -Wall -g [...]" instead of > > "diet -v hppa-linux-gcc [...]", what happens? > > <liw> vorlon, it fails by not recognizing some link file without libtool; if > > I add the libtool stuff in front, then it does link > > <vorlon> liw: basically, by calling ./configure --host=... --build=..., > > util-vserver is incorrectly causing autoconf to think this is a > > cross-compile invocation, and therefore calls hppa-linux-gcc > > instead of just calling gcc; if you do in fact get different > > errors, > > this may be the root of the problem > > <vorlon> liw: in that case, switching util-vserver to use the confflags > > sample stanza from /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz > > may be enough to cure the remaining ills > The workaround for sparc wouldn't be necessary if the diet wrapper is > called with the -Os option (this adds -mcpu=supersparc), a good idea > anyway for all architectures. It most certainly is *not* a good idea; it's contraindicated by policy to build binaries with -Os instead of -O2, and the idea of calling -Os to set -mcpu=supersparc leaves me very much afraid of what other random options diet would set. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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