Static linked cross tools

[Allen Curtis]

It builds!

make configure-host

Adding this line to the binutils build was the key.

Thanks for the help.

On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Stefan Peter wrote:

> Allen
>
> I'm currently  building a statically linked cross compiler using the 
> patch
> attached. It may not be coded according to the high standards of 
> crosstools,
> but it works if you call crosstool.sh with
> BINUTILS_MAKE_OPTIONS="LDFLAGS=-all-static"   and
> GCC_MAKE_OPTIONS="LDFLAGS=-static"
> BTW, Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) has detailed
> descriptions covering building static binutils (Chapter 5,  
> Binutils-2.14 -
> Pass 1).
>
> With kind regards
>
> Stefan Peter
>
> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 16.00, Allen Curtis wrote:
>>>>> BINUTILS_MAKE_OPTIONS="LDFLAGS=-all-static"
>>>>> # I would advice against using BINUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG since it's
>>>>> issued
>>>>> # to configure - we don't need that
>>>>> make $BINUTILS_MAKE_OPTIONS all
>>>>
>>>> It appears that the previous message was generated when configuring
>>>> libiberty. I do not get this error without the LDFLAGS variable.
>>>
>>> Part (99%) of binutils' configuring is actually performed while
>>> building,
>>> thus when you issue make, not when you issue configure. One problem I
>>> ran
>>> into is that the configure scripts during make failed with "C 
>>> compiler
>>> cannot generate executables" because of the LDFLAGS - it should not 
>>> be
>>> set
>>> while configuring.
>>>
>>> I avoided that problem by issuing "make configure-host" before
>>> starting the
>>> make all phase (should've said so right away - slipped my mind). I'm
>>> not
>>> sure if it will remedy your problem too.
>>
>> Oh, I will try that later and report.
>>
>>> I have not seen the GCC_NO_EXEC problem myself. I'm sorry but I can't
>>> help
>>> you with that.
>>>
>>> Binutils versions I have built are 2.13.95 and 2.14
>>
>> We are using binutils 2.15. I believe this is the default when using
>> the crosstool scripts.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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