Re: wip-arm-bootstrap: Reduced binary seed bootstrap

2020-12-23 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes:

Hi!

> Jan Nieuwenhuizen  skribis:
>
>> I pushed an initial wip-arm-bootstrap that builds up to tcc-boot:
>>
>> ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot)'
>>
>>
>> Danny did a terrific job on armhf-linux support for GNU Mes and we are
>> getting close to release v0.23.  What's known to be missing is "setjmp"
>> support for tcc/gcc.  And, of course, for the Reduced binary seed
>> bootstrap to work on ARM!
>
> Woohoo, thumbs up for this great milestone, hackers! 

Thanks!!

>> Anyway, the problem I'm looking at now is that while tcc-boot builds on
>> an ARM box, it does not build on aarch64-linux, i.e. this
>>
>> ./pre-inst-env guix build --system=armhf-linux \
>>   -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot0)'
>>
>> fails on overdrive1.
>
> That’s “interesting”.  Did you eventually find a lead?

Yes, I added '|| BOOTSTRAP' in tccelf.c:

--8<---cut here---start->8---
#if defined (TCC_ARM_EABI) || BOOTSTRAP
ehdr.e_ident[EI_OSABI] = 0;
ehdr.e_flags = EF_ARM_EABI_VER4;
if (file_type == TCC_OUTPUT_EXE || file_type == TCC_OUTPUT_DLL)
ehdr.e_flags |= EF_ARM_HASENTRY;
if (s1->float_abi == ARM_HARD_FLOAT)
ehdr.e_flags |= EF_ARM_VFP_FLOAT;
else
ehdr.e_flags |= EF_ARM_SOFT_FLOAT;
#else
ehdr.e_ident[EI_OSABI] = ELFOSABI_ARM;
#endif
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

this should be investigated a bit further.  Compiling with TCC_ARM_EABI
fails (which should work, really), but for this linking stage we need it
set to produce an aarch64-linux-compatible ELF header.  Dunno!

> Thanks for the update, it’s exciting!

You're welcome!  Meanwhile, I built gcc-core-mesboot0 (2.95.3).
However, that's using bash from %bootstrap-coreutils

The last thing I did was to investigate into bash-2.05b and found that
bash depends on a working setjmp/longjmp for tinycc.  I tried several
versions of macro substitution on x86 instead of setjmp/longjmp, but
that doesn't seem possible: subshells and such.  So Danny, would you
like to look at that?

Greetings,
Janneke

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Re: wip-arm-bootstrap: Reduced binary seed bootstrap

2020-12-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello!

Jan Nieuwenhuizen  skribis:

> I pushed an initial wip-arm-bootstrap that builds up to tcc-boot:
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot)'
>
>
> Danny did a terrific job on armhf-linux support for GNU Mes and we are
> getting close to release v0.23.  What's known to be missing is "setjmp"
> support for tcc/gcc.  And, of course, for the Reduced binary seed
> bootstrap to work on ARM!

Woohoo, thumbs up for this great milestone, hackers! 

> Anyway, the problem I'm looking at now is that while tcc-boot builds on
> an ARM box, it does not build on aarch64-linux, i.e. this
>
> ./pre-inst-env guix build --system=armhf-linux \
>   -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot0)'
>
> fails on overdrive1.

That’s “interesting”.  Did you eventually find a lead?

>   configure: error: 'mescc' failed to compile conftest.c.
> Backtrace:
> In unknown file:
>?: 19 [apply-smob/1 #]
> [..]
> In gash/shell.scm:
>  165: 1 [sh:exec-let () "./conftest" "triplet"]
> In unknown file:
>?: 0 [execle "./conftest" # "./conftest" ...]
>
> ERROR: In procedure execle:
> ERROR: In procedure execle: No such file or directory

Looks like the ELF interpreter on ‘conftest’ might be wrong?

Thanks for the update, it’s exciting!

Ludo’.



Re: wip-arm-bootstrap: Reduced binary seed bootstrap

2020-12-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes:

Hello,

> I pushed an initial wip-arm-bootstrap that builds up to tcc-boot:

Just a headsup: I have reset wip-arm-bootstrap.  This version actually
builds tcc-boot using mes-boot (the previous one only worked when
cheating by using %bootstrap-guile).

Also, the aarch64-linux problem has been fixed, so that this

--8<---cut here---start->8---
./pre-inst-env guix build --system=armhf-linux \
 -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) tcc-boot)'
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

now works on overdrive1.

Greetings,
Janneke

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