Re: Problem reapplying patch for the HIXS system

[Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>]

On 12/07/2010 02:53 PM, Michael Ambrus wrote:
> That made the trick, thanks a lot Jeff!
>
> Just managed to sucessfully build a complete Canadian cross tool-chain
> for powerpc-hixs-elf. Got some new issues for strlen for arm-hixs-elf:
>
> Making all in arm
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/home/mambrus/tinker/gnutools/_BUILD/arm-hixs-elf/newlib-1.18.0/arm-hixs-elf/newlib/libc/machine/arm'
> arm-hixs-elf-gcc ... '`strlen.c
> /tmp/ccZkTPzX.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccZkTPzX.s:22: Error: bad instruction `neg len,len'
> /tmp/ccZkTPzX.s:27: Error: bad instruction `it ne'
> /tmp/ccZkTPzX.s:36: Error: bad instruction `itt eq'
> /tmp/ccZkTPzX.s:41: Error: bad instruction `itttt ne'
> /tmp/ccZkTPzX.s:46: Error: bad instruction `it ne'
> make[1]: *** [lib_a-strlen.o] Error 1
Any chance you don't have the as for this target in your PATH?

--joel
> /Michael
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Jeff Johnston<jjohnstn@redhat.com>  wrote:
> > On 12/07/2010 02:39 PM, Michael Ambrus wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > A few years back I experimented with a system which I called HIXS in
> > > newlib-1.14.0/newlib/libc/sys/. I'm trying to re-apply the patch (which
> > > used to work perfectly) to newlib-1.18.0 but for some reason it won't
> > > build.
> > >
> > > Adding an extra printout in HIXS configure.in:
> > >
> > > AC_MSG_NOTICE([===== Running configure for HIXS<$PACKAGE_NAME>    version
> > > <$PACKAGE_VERSION>    ====])
> > >
> > > As far as I can see from from the build/configure logs, the configure
> > > script for hixs is never run. A snippet from the build however shows:
> > >
> > >
> > > ==========================================================================================
> > > Making all in sys
> > > make[8]: Entering directory
> > > `/tmp/BO/arm-hixs-elf/newlib-1.18.0/arm-hixs-elf/thumb/newlib/libc/sys'
> > > Making all in hixs
> > > /bin/bash: line 17: cd: hixs: No such file or directory
> > > Making all in .
> > > make[9]: Entering directory
> > > `/tmp/BO/arm-hixs-elf/newlib-1.18.0/arm-hixs-elf/thumb/newlib/libc/sys'
> > > make[9]: *** No rule to make target `hixs/lib.a', needed by `lib.a'.
> > >
> > > ==========================================================================================
> > >
> > > Seems the build-system has got it half-way right. It expects HIXS to be
> > > where it should, but it has not created the directory nor run the the
> > > configure script for it?
> > >
> > > What's happened, has there been there any fundamental changes in the
> > > build-system or am I missing something (forgotten but) obvious?
> > >
> > > Any input/hints much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Michael Ambrus
> > > http://kato.homelinux.org/~tinker/
> > Look at newlib/libc/sys/configure.in.  You have to tell it to configure your
> > hixs subdir via the sys_dir variable which you set in newlib's top-level
> > file: configure.host.  Remember to run autoconf after you change
> > configure.in.


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