Re: Problems building Newlib for PPC

[Scott Howard <scott@objsw.com>]

You can get newlib-1.8.0 for powerpc-eabi from my web site, http://www.objsw.com . Follow the downloads link.  The executables are for DOS/Windows but the libraries should be compatible with your
host.

Jon Burke wrote:
> 
> Has anybody managed to build newlib for a PPC target? I've been trying
> to build newlib-1.8.1 on a Solaris host for a PowerPC target
> (powerpc-eabi). It fails during make as follows:
> 
> powerpc-eabi-ar rv libsim.a sim-print.o sim-inbyte.o sim-sbrk.o
> sim-abort.o
> sim-errno.o simulator.o fstat.o getpid.o isatty.o kill.o putnum.o stat.o
> 
> unlink.o mcount.o
> a - sim-print.o
> a - sim-inbyte.o
> a - sim-sbrk.o
> a - sim-abort.o
> a - sim-errno.o
> a - simulator.o
> powerpc-eabi-ar: fstat.o: No such file or directory
> 
> It appears to be a problem with 1 or more makefiles not compiling the
> right things in the right order. Some further progress can be made by
> hand compiling the missing object files, but it gets too tricky after a
> while. Any help would be much appreciated!
> 
> --
> Jon Burke
> Email: jburke@compd.com
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