crosstool: issues compiling glibxc: as and ld missing or too old

[Yann E. MORIN]

Julain, All,

On Wednesday 24 August 2011 18:17:48 Julian wrote:
> Hey guys,
> i've some problems with crosstool 0.43 (kegel.com/crosstool):

The original crosstool is no longer maintained, and is now considered
orphaned.

There is a spin-off (aka fork) called crosstool-NG: http://crosstool-ng.org/
that is current, and which I suggest you have a look at.
(Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer for crosstool-NG.)

> I tried to compile a cross toolchain for an embedded computer with 
> Motorola MPC8250. It seems to belong to the PowerPC family 600 (EC603e) 
> => powerpc-603.
> Now, I've a host with Ubuntu 11.04 (2.6.38-11), gcc 4.52-8ubuntu4 and 
> binutils 2.21.0.20110327.
> I downloaded crosstool and followed the instructions 
> (http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/crosstool-howto.html#quick). 
> Everything worked so far, until glibc (?) showed an error:
> gcc-4.1.0 + glibc-2.3.5 and newer (yes, I tried many versions :-/ ...):
>  > configure: error:
>  > ** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld

This is a known issue. In fact, the test in glibc is wrong, and does not
breaks on too-recent a version of binutils (as and ld come from binutils).

This is properly handled in crosstool-NG.

> Earlier versions say that gcc is too old (or missing).
> They are not missing and probably too new for this?!

Indeed, they are "too new" for glibc to recognise them, although they are
not "too new" to build glibc.

> What can I do?

As I said above, crosstool is no longer maintained. Please, try crosstool-NG.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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