Newlib build error on ix86-linux

[J. Johnston]

José Miguel Gonçalves wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to build newlib natively on a Linux PC and I am getting errors.
> I am building it using the latest newlib sources from CVS, with a 
> Mandrake 9.1 distribution and gcc 2.96.
> 
> More details:
> 
> $ mkdir newlib-build
> $ cd newlib-build
> $ ../newlib-src/configure --prefix=/usr/local/newlib --srcdir=../newlib-src
>   ...
> $ make all-target-newlib
>   ...
> gcc -I/home/jmpg/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/targ-include
> -I../../../newlib-src/newlib/./libc/include -DPACKAGE=\"newlib\"
> -DVERSION=\"1.11.0\" -I. -I../../../../../newlib-src/newlib/libc/argz -O2
> -DMB_CAPABLE -Wall -D_I386MACH_ALLOW_HW_INTERRUPTS -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
> -DHAVE_FCNTL -DWANT_IO_POS_ARGS -DWANT_IO_LONG_DBL -fPIC
> -D_I386MACH_NEED_SOTYPE_FUNCTION -DMISSING_SYSCALL_NAMES -fno-builtin 
> -O2 -g
> -O2 -O2 -g -O2 -c ../../../../../newlib-src/newlib/libc/argz/argz_add.c  
> -fPIC
> -DPIC -o .libs/argz_add.o
> In file included from 
> ../../../../../newlib-src/newlib/libc/argz/argz_add.c:8:
> /home/jmpg/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/targ-include/sys/types.h:53:24: 
> 
> sys/config.h: No such file or directory
> /home/jmpg/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/targ-include/sys/types.h:54:27: 
> 
> machine/types.h: No such file or directory
> make[4]: *** [argz_add.lo] Error 1
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> José Goncalves
> 

Jose,

   Use absolute paths in your configure statement.  Configuration is getting the
relative directories wrong.  Notice the difference in relative paths for
the newlib-src directory when specifying the argz directory vs the libc directory in your
compile.  If you specify an absolute path for the location of configure, you don't need
to specify --srcdir.

-- Jeff J.