2012/1/17 Jeremy Bennett <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 21:09 +0100, Olof Kindgren wrote:
>> The following change enabled building of the toolchain with the
>> bld-all.sh script for me. I couldn't see any side-effects caused by
>> bfd_tell, so it seems safe to omit it
>
> Hi Olof,
>
> Thanks for this. Some comments below.
>
>> Index: gnu-src/binutils-2.20.1/bfd/archive64.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- gnu-src/binutils-2.20.1/bfd/archive64.c   (revision 673)
>> +++ gnu-src/binutils-2.20.1/bfd/archive64.c   (working copy)
>> @@ -43,7 +43,6 @@
>>  {
>>    struct artdata *ardata = bfd_ardata (abfd);
>>    char nextname[17];
>> -  file_ptr arhdrpos;
>>    bfd_size_type i, parsed_size, nsymz, stringsize, carsym_size, ptrsize;
>>    struct areltdata *mapdata;
>>    bfd_byte int_buf[8];
>> @@ -55,7 +54,6 @@
>>    ardata->symdefs = NULL;
>>
>>    /* Get the name of the first element.  */
>> -  arhdrpos = bfd_tell (abfd);
>>    i = bfd_bread (nextname, 16, abfd);
>>    if (i == 0)
>>      return TRUE;
>
> Is this the upstream patch for this problem? We should use the upstream
> patch on the binutils-2.20.1 branch if at all possible (and if not, use
> the mainline binutils). That way we avoid issues down the line.
>
>> To do a test build with gcc 4.6 and make it stop on unused variables,
>> I made the following changes to the gnu_make function in the build
>> script. That should be all, right?
>>
>> Index: gnu-src/bld-all.sh
>> ===================================================================
>> --- gnu-src/bld-all.sh        (revision 673)
>> +++ gnu-src/bld-all.sh        (working copy)
>> @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@
>>           ${top_srcdir}/configure --target=${target}                 \
>>               --with-pkgversion="${verstr}" --disable-shared         \
>>               --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.opencores.org/           \
>> -             --with-or1ksim=${or1ksim_dir} --disable-werror         \
>> +             --with-or1ksim=${or1ksim_dir}          \
>>               --enable-fast-install=N/A --disable-libssp             \
>>               --enable-languages=${langs} --prefix=${this_prefix} $*
>
> Yes - this is a good thing to do.
>
>> @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@
>>       cd $1
>>       shift
>>
>> -     make $make_load $*
>> +     make CC=gcc-4.6 $make_load $*
>>
>>       if [ $? != 0 ]
>>       then
>
> This seems a very bad plan. We should not be forcing a particular gcc in
> the generic script. Leave this change out.
>
> You might like to test with GCC 4.6.1 as well (default I think on the
> latest Ubuntu).
>
> If it passes regression as before (I believe there are some failures -
> look on the Wiki), then the change is good.
>
> BTW, the purist approach to portability is to first use your sources to
> build a native tool chain, with 3-stage build of the compiler to
> validate. Then use that compiler to build the cross-compiler. But I'm
> not recommending we do that!
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Jeremy
>
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Looking for an upstream patch seems like a good plan. I'll se what I can find

Also, the build script changes was just to get feedback on my method,
and was not meant to be part of the patch. I need gcc 4.5 for some EDA
tool that crashes otherwise, which is why I hard coded 4.6 in the
script.

-- 
Olof Kindgren
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