Build error for moxiebox architecture

[Torbjorn SVENSSON]

On 2023-09-19 10:04, Chris Packham wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 10:24 PM Torbjorn SVENSSON
> <torbjorn.svensson@foss.st.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 2023-08-13 02:27, Chris Packham wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm getting the next crosstool-ng release together and one build
>>> failure we're having is for the moxiebox architecture:
>>>
>>> moxie-unknown-moxiebox/lib/libc.a(libc_a-closer.o): in function `_close_r':
>>> moxie-unknown-moxiebox/src/newlib/newlib/libc/reent/closer.c:47:
>>> undefined reference to `_close'
>>>
>>> and similar for _lseek, _read, _write and _sbrk
>>
>> As you do not include the link line, I'm assuming that you are not using
>> anything out of the ordinary. In this case, maybe you should give
>> --specs=nosys.specs a go and see if it helps.
>> Regardless if it helps or not, it will likely only provide you with
>> stubs that you need to override in you application to get something working.
> 
> Yeah sorry. I'll get things in an issue for ct-ng so we have a proper
> record to refer back to.
> 
> One thing I have found is that things work fine with 4.2.0.20211231
> but fail with 4.3.0.20230120 (or the tip of main). I did see the
> recent commit 55485616b ("Bring back libsim.a for riscv") and I note
> the moxiebox definition of _close() is in libsim.a so this made me
> wonder if whatever issue was affecting riscv was related to the moxie
> failure. But I also note that there has been a bit of a change in some
> Makefiles as per commit 66dfedc28 ("libgloss: merge bfin into
> top-level Makefile").

I think you should not link with libsim.a when you are not using a 
simulator.

> 
> So as a first step maybe I need to do a similar conversion. It looks
> like those conversions involve some code changes and then the result
> of running automake but I'm not sure what parts are manual and what
> parts are from running automake. Any pointers on doing this for
> another architecture.

Sorry, but I can't help you on that.