[ECOS] Re: Problem with precompiled Cygwin arm-eabi toolchain

[Uwe Kindler <uwe_kindler at web dot de>]

Hello,

> hal_mk_defs is somewhat special. Look at the CDL in hal/arm/arch/...
>
>     make -priority 1 {
>         arm.inc : <PACKAGE>/src/hal_mk_defs.c
>         $(CC) $(ACTUAL_CFLAGS) $(INCLUDE_PATH) -Wp,-MD,arm.tmp -o 
hal_mk_defs.tmp -S $<
>         fgrep .equ hal_mk_defs.tmp | sed s/#// > $@
>         @echo $@ ": \\" > $(notdir $@).deps
>         @tail -n +2 arm.tmp >> $(notdir $@).deps
>         @echo >> $(notdir $@).deps
>         @rm arm.tmp hal_mk_defs.tmp
>     }
>
> It is probably worth figuring out what is actually going wrong. No
> error message from gcc might mean gcc is actually working O.K. and you
> have a silly problem with fgrep, sed, tail, etc..

...

> Building eCos and tests for target ea2468 with the kernel template works
> fine for me using the 2008-12-13 arm-eabi toolchain under the latest
> Cygwin. I set CYGBLG_GLOBAL_COMMAND_PREFIX == "arm-eabi" and removed
> "-mno-short-load-words" from CYGBLG_GLOBAL_CFLAGS. I note that you have
> further modified the compilation flags. The flags should look something
> like this:
>
> > -finline-limit=7000 -mcpu=arm7tdmi -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -g -O2 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-exceptions
>
> Also, check that "arm-eabi-gcc" works from a bash prompt and that you
> have "fgrep" and "sed" installed.
>
> John Dallaway

I have the precompiled arm-elf toolchain and the precompiled arm-eabi 
toolchain from the eCos homepage installed at the same time. I use to 
the newest Cygwin version. While the arm-elf toolchain builds the target 
ea2468 without any problems, the arm-eabi toolchain fails with described 
error message. Because the build works fine with the arm-elf toolchain I 
cannot imagine that it is a issue related to my Cygwin installation. If 
there would be any problem with fgrep, sed, tail then also the build 
with arm-elf toolchain would fail.

I tried to build a simple test.c file from command line:

arm-elf-gcc -c test.c -o test.o
arm-eabi-gcc -c test.c -o test.o

While the arm-elf-gcc printed a warning "no newline at end of file" and 
created an test.o file, the arm-eabi-gcc did not print this warning nor 
did it produce an test.o file.

This is the same problem like described in this message:

http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2008-11/msg00075.html

So I'am not the only one with this problem.

Regards, Uwe

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