Re: cross compilation problems

[Steve Bowman]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:57:14AM -0500, Daniel E . Baumann wrote:
> Well I tried this:
> 
> mkdir build; cd build
> MIG=i386-gnu-mig CC=i386-gnu-gcc LD=i386-gnu-ld ../configure \
> --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu  --host=i386-pc-gnu --target=i386-pc-gnu \
> --prefix=/gnu
> 
> and I still get problems with  /usr/i386-gnu/lib/libutil.so needing libc.so.6
> and errors about symbol redefinitions which come from libc.so.6. So maybe the
> cross compiler is broke? I do not know anything about building a debian
> package to know where to look to fix this.

I may be trying this yet tonight....  But I want to hack on trans/kbd.c
some more before I build again and it's late.  Maybe tomorrow.

Hmmm.  I checked a few with ldd and they are looking for libc.so.6
which doesn't look good.  These libs come with the gcc-i386-gnu package.
I have version 1.7-4 of this package installed - and it looks broken.
It worked last time I built gnumach, but maybe it doesn't need any of
the broken libs.  If I cannot build either, I'll report a bug against
gcc-i386-gnu.  And I may report one anyway if I can confirm it's really
broken and not just my tired imagination.

> 
> Using the dpkg-builpackage script where would you run that from? A build
> directory?

>From the top directory (ls debian/rules should see a file if you're in
the right dir).  Ummm.  If the cross-compiler really is broken, don't
get your hopes up.  I'd expect it to try linking the same broken libs.

> 
> BTW, under Mach the first com port is /dev/com0 right?

AFAIK, yes.  Also, MAKEDEV knows com[0-9] so this looks right.

BTW, these troubles only seem to come from cross-compiling.  I've done
a number of native builds without problem.  If that works for you,
there's a way to go....

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