master error list for crossgcc enthusiasts

[Dan Kegel]

Roman Duka wrote:
> Hi all, if it's viable, i'd like to propose to create a master error 
> list and then get everyone to contribute to it. The idea is to catalog 
> error message during compilation of software, toolchain description and 
> possible solutions. Quite often people get similar error message when 
> they try building cross gcc and libc libraires etc, once there is a 
> master error list, people could search that, and see if the same error 
> message have been catalogued and which solutions have been suggested

For what it's worth, simply posting the error message and the solution
to this mailing list will more or less do it; people can then search
for the error message via google or whatever, and they'll see your post.

But even more useful would be if you would contribute a patch to fix
the problem in crosstool.

> for example:
> 
> This is a list of error messages during different cross compilation stages
> You can search for any error message you got, in case they have been
> documented here and provide solutions to solve the problem
> 
> ----------------------------
> Problem:
> x86-cross-sparc64 toolchain, binutils-2.14, gcc-3.4-20040121, 
> glibc-2.3.3-20040127
> cross compiling glibc fails
> 
> Solution:
> When running "configure" script for glibc, set 
> CC="sparc-64-unknown-linux-gnu -mcpu=ultrasparc3"

Wouldn't it be cleaner to just have a sparc64.dat that contained

TARGET=sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu
TARGET_CFLAGS="-O -mcpu=ultrasparc3"
GCC_EXTRA_CONFIG="--disable-multilib"

?

BTW, I did try building for sparc64 once, but got the error

../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/pause.c:1:39: sysdeps/unix/common/pause.c: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/home/dank/crosstool-0.27-pre1/build/sparc64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.2-glibc-2.3.2/build-glibc/posix/pause.o] Error 1

and haven't tried diagnosing it yet.  Sounds like you're further along than me;
where'd you get that version of glibc?  Is it an official
snapshot, or did you grab it from cvs yourself?

- Dan

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