[ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8

[Sergei Gavrikov]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:45:49AM -0800, Jay Foster wrote:
> Thanks, Gary.  I can now report success in building the ecosconfig tool.  I
> needed to install the TCL and TK development packages (yum install
> tcl-devel, yum install tk-devel).  The --host error was happening in the
> gprof configure directory, which I don't need, so I only ran configure in
> the host directory which worked.  Turns out it worked with the
> --host=i686-linux-gnu and without, producing the exact same executable
> either way.

$ .../configure --with-tcl-version=8.4 ...

to force a change of arch. set, it seems, you can build the stuff as

make CFLAGS="-march=i686" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686" 

or

make CXXFLAGS="-march=i486 -mtune=pentium4" ...

etc.

$ ls -1d /usr/lib/i{3,4,5,6}86*


Sergei

> 
> Jay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:10 AM
> To: Jay Foster
> Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
> 
> 
> Jay Foster wrote:
> > The existing tools are built agains TCL/TK 8.3 which are not on the new
> > system.
> > I tried --host=i686-linux-gnu, and it now no longer complains about the
> > x86_64 stuff.  But as I suspected, it now can't find the TCL/TK
> > (tclConfig.sh/tkConfig.sh).  Did these files get removed in version 8.4?
> 
> I think you need to install the TK development packages.
> 
> You can probably also just fake it
>   # ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.{4,3}.so
>   # ln -s /usr/lib/libtk8.{4,3}.so
> 
> Alternatively, I have RPM packages built on Fedora 7 I could give you.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:27 AM
> > To: Jay Foster
> > Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
> > 
> > 
> > Jay Foster wrote:
> >> Yes, but there seems to be some 'sub-configures' that aren't getting the
> >> --host= argument passed to them, and do the guess host thing, which
> > guesses
> >> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu again, which fails.
> >>
> >> I'm also concerned that even if I could get past this, it would fail
> > finding
> >> TCL and TK, since there doesn't seem to be a tclConfig.sh or tkConfig.sh
> >> file anywhere on the installation.  Yes, I did install TCL and TK
> (version
> >> 8.4).
> > 
> > I don't have an x86_64 system installed here (I run simple x86 kernel
> > on my AMD/64 boxes), so I can't test this.
> > 
> > Is there something in particular you need to [re]build the host tools for?
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:08 AM
> >> To: Jay Foster
> >> Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> >> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
> >>
> >>
> >> Jay Foster wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to build the host tools (ecosconfig, et al) on a new install
> > of
> >>> Fedora 8 (x86_64).  I am getting the following error when running
> >> configure:
> >>> 	checking build system type... Invalid configuration
> >>> `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized.
> >>>
> >>> I tried adding --host=x86_64-linux-gnu to the configure options, but it
> >>> seems that the configure script isn't passing this down to the
> >>> sub-configures, and I end up with the same error further on.  I'm sure
> >>> someone has built these tools on a x86_64 linux architecture that could
> >>> provide me with the solution to this problem.
> >> I'd be a little surprised if someone had :-)
> >>
> >> Did you try forcing the host to be just x86-linux-gnu?  The
> >> process will probably work just as well with that setting.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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