Re: crosstool-ng 1.7.0: Problem with custom kernel headers and building gcc

["Andy Gibbs" <andyg1001 at hotmail dot co dot uk>]

Hello,

On Wednesday, June 09, 2010 7:28 PM Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 June 2010 17:30:00 Andy Gibbs wrote:
> > I'm using the latest (1.7.0) version of crosstool-ng.  I don't think 
> > there's
> > anything very exciting in my configuration,
>
> Your .config, or better your complete build.log, would be nice to have...

Ah, I'm afraid the relevant build.log file has been swallowed up since I 
tried a number of things afterwards - sorry!  However, I have attached the 
.config file to this email for you.  If you need the full log, I can try to 
recreate it for you?

> OK, that is an issue. The tarball you point to should contain the
> include/ directory of the *already* sanitised headers.
>
> Usign your kernel source tree, you should prepare the tarball thus:
>  # tar xjf linux-2.6.tar.bz2
>  # cd linux-2.6
>  # make ARCH=powerpc INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$(pwd)/hdr headers_install
>  # tar cjf my-linux-2.6-headers.tar.bz2 -C hdr include
>
> And then you use point crostool-NG to use my-linux-2.6-headers.tar.bz2

That's great: that's solved the problem and all compiled without any futher 
hiccups except for an error "problem compiling FC test program" which I've 
read elsewhere should be ignored as something to do with Fortran which I'm 
not using...

> > Also, while I'm here, the other problem I have is that every time I do a
> > "ct-ng build" it rebuilds everything from scratch - i.e. GMP, MPFR, etc -
> > even though these built completely the previous time.  Is there any way 
> > of
> > turning off this behaviour?
>
> No, there's none. [...]

Not to worry!

> HTH...

It did: thank you!

Cheers
Andy

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