Newbie problem building newlib-1.12.0 for i386-linux

[Michael Kieser]

Thanks for your help,

but now I get everytime the following error and I don't know how to work 
arround.

...
gcc -I/home/doc/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/targ-include 
-I/home/doc/newlib-1.12.0/newlib/libc/include -DPACKAGE=\"newlib\" 
-DVERSION=\"1.12.0\" -I. -I../../../../../newlib-1.12.0/newlib/libc/search 
-O2 -DMB_CAPABLE -Wall -D_I386MACH_ALLOW_HW_INTERRUPTS -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-1.12.0/newlib/libc/search/hash.c  -fPIC -DPIC 
-o .libs/hash.o
In file included from /usr/include/linux/stat.h:57,
                 from /home/doc/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/targ-include/sys/stat.h:11,
                 from ../../../../../newlib-1.12.0/newlib/libc/search/hash.c:44:
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `timespec_to_jiffies':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:197: error: `u64' undeclared (first use in this 
function)
/usr/include/linux/time.h:197: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported 
only once
/usr/include/linux/time.h:197: error: for each function it appears in.)
/usr/include/linux/time.h:201: error: parse error before "sec"
/usr/include/linux/time.h:201: error: parse error before ')' token
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `jiffies_to_timespec':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:214: error: `u64' undeclared (first use in this 
function)
/usr/include/linux/time.h:214: error: parse error before "nsec"
/usr/include/linux/time.h:215: error: `nsec' undeclared (first use in this 
function)
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `timeval_to_jiffies':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:236: error: `u64' undeclared (first use in this 
function)
/usr/include/linux/time.h:240: error: parse error before "sec"
/usr/include/linux/time.h:240: error: parse error before ')' token
/usr/include/linux/time.h: In function `jiffies_to_timeval':
/usr/include/linux/time.h:252: error: `u64' undeclared (first use in this 
function)
/usr/include/linux/time.h:252: error: parse error before "nsec"
/usr/include/linux/time.h:253: error: `nsec' undeclared (first use in this 
function)
make[4]: *** [hash.lo] Fehler 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/doc/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/libc/search'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/doc/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib/libc'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Fehler 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/newlib'
make: *** [all-target-newlib] Fehler 2
doc@gateway:~/newlib-build>

Don't know, why I can't compile simply as everywhere discribed.
Thanks for help

Am Freitag, 6. August 2004 20:48 schrieben Sie:
> Michael,
>
>    Newlib isn't the default C library for a native linux platform such as
> i386-linux; glibc is.  To get newlib to build for linux, you have to
> specify the --with-newlib configuration option.  I would suggest you
> specify your target to be i686-pc-linux-gnu if you are targetting the
> machine you are building with.
>
> -- Jeff J.
>
> Michael Kieser wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I tried to build the newlib  but with or without a toolchain for
> > i386-linux I never can built it.
> >
> > First I extracted newlib-1.12.tar.gz -> $HOME
> > then created a subdirectory $HOME/newlib-build
> > then created a subdirectory $HOME/cross
> >
> > then cd newlib-build
> > then ../newlib-1.12.0/configure --prefix=$HOME/cross --target=i386-linux
> >
> > result is:
> >
> > doc@gateway:~/newlib-build> ../newlib-1.12.0/configure
> > --prefix=$HOME/cross --target=i386-linux
> > creating cache ./config.cache
> > checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > checking target system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
> > checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > *** This configuration is not supported in the following subdirectories:
> >      target-newlib target-libgloss
> >     (Any other directories should still work fine.)
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no
> > checking for ar... ar
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no
> > checking for as... as
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no
> > checking for dlltool... dlltool
> > checking for
> > i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld...
> > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no
> > checking for nm... nm
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
> > checking for ranlib... ranlib
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no
> > checking for windres... windres
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy... no
> > checking for objcopy... objcopy
> > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... no
> > checking for objdump... objdump
> > checking for i386-linux-ar... no
> > checking for i386-linux-as... no
> > checking for i386-linux-dlltool... no
> > checking for i386-linux-ld... no
> > checking for i386-linux-nm... no
> > checking for i386-linux-ranlib... no
> > checking for i386-linux-windres... no
> > checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
> > no updating cache ./config.cache
> > creating ./config.status
> > creating Makefile
> > doc@gateway:~/newlib-build>
> >
> > with i386-linux toolchain there is the same result but
> > ...
> > checking for i386-linux-ar...  i386-linux-ar
> > checking for i386-linux-as...  i386-linux-as
> > checking for i386-linux-dlltool... i386-linux-dlltool
> > checking for i386-linux-ld... i386-linux-ld
> > checking for i386-linux-nm...  i386-linux-nm
> > checking for i386-linux-ranlib... i386-linux-ranlib
> > checking for i386-linux-windres... 386-linux-windres
> > ...
> >
> > try of make all install ends up everytime with
> >
> > doc@gateway:~/newlib-build> make all install
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > make[1]: Für das Ziel »all« ist nichts zu tun.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > /bin/sh ../newlib-1.12.0/mkinstalldirs /home/doc/cross /home/doc/cross
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > for f in standards.info configure.info; do \
> >   if test -f ../../newlib-1.12.0/etc/`echo $f | sed -e
> > 's/.info$/.texi/'`; then \
> >     if make "MAKEINFO=/home/doc/newlib-1.12.0/missing makeinfo
> > --split-size=5000000" $f; then \
> >       true; \
> >     else \
> >       exit 1; \
> >     fi; \
> >   fi; \
> > done
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > make[2]: »standards.info« ist bereits aktualisiert.
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > make[2]: »configure.info« ist bereits aktualisiert.
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > /bin/sh ../../newlib-1.12.0/etc/../mkinstalldirs /home/doc/cross/info
> > if test ! -f standards.info; then cd ../../newlib-1.12.0/etc; fi; \
> > if test -f standards.info; then \
> >   for i in standards.info*; do \
> >     /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i /home/doc/cross/info/$i; \
> >   done; \
> > fi
> > if test ! -f configure.info; then cd ../../newlib-1.12.0/etc; fi; \
> > if test -f configure.info; then \
> >   for i in configure.info*; do \
> >     /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $i /home/doc/cross/info/$i; \
> >   done; \
> > fi
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/doc/newlib-build/etc'
> > doc@gateway:~/newlib-build>
> >
> > I don't need info files, only the newlib
> > can anybody help me, getting the newlib compiled ??
> >
> > Thanks