Re: Cross-compiler for Alpha architecture

[venetis at mail dot capsl dot udel dot edu]

Hello again,

Does no one have any idea about this? Do you need more information to
check it? If so, let me know.

Thanks!

Ioannis

> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to build a cross-compiler for an alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
> system, using crosstool-ng. The host is a i686-unknown-linux-gnu.
>
> After applying several patches (look in [1]), I managed to build a
> tool-chain using binutils 2.18/gcc 4.2.3/linux kernel 2.6.24.7 and glibc
> 2.3.6 (with linuxthreads). However, I would like to use newer versions of
> gcc (4.3.x) and glibc(>=2.6). Trying to build these, however, yields some
> errors (initially in glibc and now in gcc).
>
> I managed to get as far as described here:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2008-06/msg00061.html [1]
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2008-06/msg00062.html
>
> The errors in [1] are coming from glibc. Ryan Arnold replied with this
> message:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2008-06/msg00063.html
>
> which solved the first problem described in [1]. However, I now get an
> error further down in the build procedure, while trying to build gcc 4.3.1
> for the target architecture:
>
> source='/root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/src/gcc-4.3.1/libdecnumber/dpd/decimal128.c'
> object='decimal128.o' libtool=no i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> -I/root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/src/gcc-4.3.1/libdecnumber
> -I.  -pipe -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute
> -Wcast-qual -pedantic -Wno-long-long
> -I/root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/src/gcc-4.3.1/libdecnumber
> -I.  -c
> /root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/src/gcc-4.3.1/libdecnumber/dpd/decimal128.c
> [ALL  ]    rm -f libdecnumber.a
> [ALL  ]    ar cru libdecnumber.a decNumber.o decContext.o decimal32.o
> decimal64.o decimal128.o
> [ALL  ]    i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib libdecnumber.a
> [ALL  ]    make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu/build/build-cc-core-shared/libdecnumber'
> [ALL  ]    make[1]: Entering directory
> `/root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu/build/build-cc-core-shared/gcc'
> [ERROR]    make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libgcc.mk'.  Stop.
> [ALL  ]    make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/root/Temp/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-2008-06-19/targets/alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu/build/build-cc-core-shared/gcc'
> [ERROR]    Build failed in step 'Installing shared core C compiler'
>
> I couldn't find any references to this problem in the mailing list
> archives and the Web. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Ioannis
>
>



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