Building crossgcc rpms (as non-root)

[Toralf Lund]

Charlie Brady wrote:

>On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Toralf Lund wrote:
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>>Hmmm. I'm using newlib rather than glibc, but here's what I'm doing [ 
>>see attached spec file ]. This is essentially the crosstool script that 
>>should be familiar to anyone on this list, reformatted into an rpm spec. 
>>Use --target to specify the platform. I'm mainly using --target 
>>m68k-coff and --target arm-coff.
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>Thanks for taking the time to follow up.
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>I'm curious about this bit of %build:
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>...
>mkdir build-binutils; cd build-binutils
>../%{_binutils}/configure --target=%{cross_target} --prefix=%{_prefix} \
>  2>&1 | tee configure.log
>make all install 2>&1 | tee make.log
>make prefix=%{buildroot}%{_prefix} install 2>&1 | tee -a make.log
>...
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>Won't the "make all install" try to write into %{_prefix}? The "install" 
>is a mistake, no?
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Yes. I don't know how that got there ;-/ Errors at this point will in 
practice be ignored, though, so the rpm is still built successfully.

>I'm also curious about:
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>export PATH=${PATH}:%{buildroot}%{_prefix}/bin
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>Shouldn't that be:
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>export PATH=%{buildroot}%{_prefix}/bin:${PATH}
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You are probably right. That would make sure that the binutils etc. just 
built would always be used in the subsequent steps, even if a version of 
the cross compiler was installed already. Notice, however, that the 
build system will always look for versions that are specific to the 
cross compile target host, of these tools, so variants for other 
platforms that may be installed will not be allowed to interfere.

Thanks for pointing this out.

>--
>Charlie
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>A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
>Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
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