I'm sure this will turn out to be a perfectly obvious configuration
error, but...
As you all know, I've been porting newlib for use in Coyotos. I now have
a working tool chain for i386. The substantive patches amounted to:
1. Add coyotos in src/config.sub
2. Add coyotos target in src/newlib/configure.host:
*-*-coyotos*)
newlib_cflags="${newlib_cflags}"
sys_dir="coyotos"
posix_dir=""
signal_dir=""
stdio64_dir=""
#stdio64_dir="stdio64"
syscall_dir=""
unix_dir=""
default_newlib_io_long_double="yes"
default_newlib_io_long_long="yes"
default_newlib_io_pos_args="yes"
#crt1=crt1.o
#crt1_dir=libc/sys/${sys_dir}
;;
Note that nothing in this config is target architecture dependent.
I hacked a sys/coyotos/ tree based on rtems, which provides its own
crt0.c, but assumes that crt0.c will be build from a board support
package. Coyotos doesn't have any board support packages (yet).
The attempt to build m68k-unknown-coyotos target fails with:
make[4]: Entering directory
`/home/shap/WORK/old-schema/coyotos/src/ccs-xenv/BUILD/build-newlib-m68k/m68k-unknown-coyotos/newlib/libc/sys'
rm -f lib.a
ln coyotos/lib.a lib.a >/dev/null 2>/dev/null \
|| cp coyotos/lib.a lib.a
rm -f crt0.o
ln coyotos/crt0.o crt0.o >/dev/null 2>/dev/null \
|| cp coyotos/crt0.o crt0.o
cp: cannot stat `coyotos/crt0.o': No such file or directory
This failure is more or less expected, since in the m68k build the
crt0.o file isn't getting built.
The right answer will probably turn out to be disabling crt0 altogether,
but before I do that I would like to understand why crt0.o is built as
expected in the i386-unknown-coyotos target, and is *not* being built
(same sys/ directory, same makefile, same source files) for the
m68k-unknown-coyotos target. It's not that the attempt to build crt0.c
for m68k target is failing. What confuses me is that no attempt is made
at all, and I'm not seeing anyplace in the makefiles that would account
for this target-specific difference in behavior.
I have a sinking suspicion that this is a multilib issue, and I'ld like
to understand what is going on a little better before I mess with it.
Can anybody provide a hint?
Thanks
shap