Hidden error(?) during build

[Thomas Jourdan]

Hi guys,

After digging a little, the problem comes from the
glibc-2.6.1/posix/Makefile. It has been solved starting from glibc 2.7
so I extracted a patch for glibc 2.6.1.

Regards,
Thomas

Le dimanche 11 janvier 2009 à 11:51 +0100, Thomas Jourdan a écrit :
> Hi guys
> 
> I'm still working on the solaris port an I have the same issue here.
> While trying to build the i686-nptl-linux-gnu toolchain under
> OpenSolaris, the problems appears during the make install rule of the
> libc function.
> 
> The problem is that solaris tries to execute ld-linux.so.2, which is an
> elf 32 bits dyn lib, and it fails with a memory fault, not a "cannot
> execute binary file". Hence the build stops on this error.
> 
> I'm trying to build an eglibc based toolchain yet but it seems that
> eglibc is fixed on this make install rule.
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas
> 
> Le lundi 05 janvier 2009 à 21:00 +0100, Yann E. MORIN a écrit :
> > Michael,
> > All,
> > 
> > On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:06:53 michael wrote:
> > > Building powerpc-405-linux-gnu I noticed one error message (I've elided 
> > > the path for clarity):
> > > [ERROR]    .../powerpc-405-linux-gnu/build/build-libc/elf/ld.so.1: 1:
> > > Syntax error: "(" unexpected 
> > 
> > > This is building on Ubuntu; building on RHEL I get the slightly more 
> > > illuminating message (but not flagged as an error):
> > > [ALL  ]    /bin/sh: .../powerpc-405-linux-gnu/build/build-libc/elf/ld.so.1: cannot execute binary file
> > 
> > > Ah: now all is clear.  *Somebody* is trying to execute the target ld.so.1 
> > > -- that's not going to work, now is it?
> > 
> > Surely not! :-)
> > 
> > > I don't know whether this actually matters, and whether the offending code 
> > > is in crosstool-ng itself, or is part of glibc (I guess my money isss with 
> > > glibc).
> > 
> > I'd say it lives somewhere in the glibc Makefiles. Sigh... :-(
> > 
> > > Still, it's a bit bothersome.  The built toolchain actually seems  
> > > to work just fine -- I think the only side effect here is that 
> > > sys-root/usr/libexec/getconf is empty -- but something odd to notice!
> > 
> > I don't have PowerPC to test on. Does the toolchain work? What is .../getconf
> > used for? Is it vital?
> > 
> > My bet is, unless the toolchain does not work, leave it alone, and go your
> > way. There are better things to work on than fixing glibc weirdness.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Yann E. MORIN.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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