On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Dimitris Lampridis wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 12:16 +0100, Peter S. Mazinger wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Dimitris Lampridis wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:47 +0100, Dimitris Lampridis wrote: > > > > I want to build a cross toolchain on an x86 system, to be able to > > > > compile for SPARC without hardware floating point support, using uclibc. > > > > I've done some attempts already but they all fail (for various reasons). > > > > Up until now, I have not succeeded 100%. So I thought I should do it in > > > > the proper way, starting from the beginning: > > > > > > > > Could you please let me know if there is a specific combination of > > > > binutils, gcc, uclibc etc., that is well-known to work for a > > > > sparc-softfloat-linux-uclibc target? > > > > > > > > thank you in advance, > > > > Dimitris > > > > > > > > PS: I currently try with: > > > > binutils-2.17 > > > > gcc-4.1.1-r3 > > > > linux-headers-2.6.19.2-r1 > > > > uclibc-0.9.28-r2 > > > > > > > > > > nobody yet? Well, I've been trying several combinations of the programs, > > > and they still all fail. I've had success with binutils-2.17, with gcc > > > 3.4.1-r3, 3.4.4-r1 and 4.1.1-r3, but no luck with uclibc. > > > > > > I've tried uclibc 0.9.28-r2, 0.9.28-r1 and 0.9.28 (as well as 0.9.27 > > > that apparently does not support sparc?), and every time they fail on > > > the same problem, complaining about duplicate "_start" symbol in ldso.c. > > > I've attached my uclibc emerge log, hopefully someone can propose > > > something? > > > > > > thank you, > > > Dimitris > > > > you may try to use uclibc-svn (no ebuild for it), some sparc support was > > added. > > > > Peter > > > > -- > > Peter S. Mazinger <ps dot m at gmx dot net> ID: 0xA5F059F2 > > Key fingerprint = 92A4 31E1 56BC 3D5A 2D08 BB6E C389 975E A5F0 59F2 > > > Hmmm, uclibc from SVN does the trick. I also tried buildroot and I was > able to produce a working toolchain for softfloat SPARC, out of: > binutils-2.6.91.0.7 > linux-kernel-2.6.11 > gcc-3.4.2 > latest snapshot of uclibc > > Thank you Peter for your time, > Dimitris
don't rely though on the svn version for production, the locking is housed (many other bugs that I won't even try listing them). Peter -- Peter S. Mazinger <ps dot m at gmx dot net> ID: 0xA5F059F2 Key fingerprint = 92A4 31E1 56BC 3D5A 2D08 BB6E C389 975E A5F0 59F2 -- [email protected] mailing list
