Linux header installation for target ARM: meke menuconfig error
 

hi,

I am a newbie trying to build my toolchain for ARM. I have compiled binutils successfully. Next step is to install the Linux headers.
when I do make menuconfig, I get the following errors:

scripts/kconfig/conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0x21): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext'
scripts/kconfig/conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0x35): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext'
scripts/kconfig/conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0x49): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext'
scripts/kconfig/conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0xdee): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext'
scripts/kconfig/conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0xf8e): undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext'
scripts/kconfig/conf.o:conf.c:(.text+0x120f): more undefined references to `_libintl_gettext' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/conf] Error 1
make: *** [assabet_defconfig] Error 2



I am using Linux-2.6.20 for header and using Cygwin for this.

Please help me.

I think it means you need the ncurses library &/or ncurses devel package. The menuconfig tool is built on the fly, and requires ncurses.

--- rod.

thanks for help.
actually I changed the Linux version to linux-2.6.39 and problem is solved.
I am using the below link as a reference for building toolchain.
http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/toolchain/

Now I am at the stage of Glibc headers and stuck in another problem.
Below is the line of code:

cd BUILD/glibc-2.14-headers
../../glibc-2.3.5/configure --prefix=/usr --host=${TARGET} --enable-add-ons=linuxthreads --with-headers=${SYSROOT}/usr/include 2>&1 | tee configure.out
make cross-compiling=yes install_root=${SYSROOT} install-headers 2>&1 | tee make.out
touch ${SYSROOT}/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h
touch ${SYSROOT}/usr/include/bits/stdio_lim.h

when I execute the above code it says the "No rules to make 'install-headers'. Stop."
and the two files stubs.h and stdio_lim.h are not generated.

from the above configure command, it should install some files(including Makefile) to the path: BUILD/glibc-2.14-headers but its not happening. so that it is giving the above error.

Dont know how to get out of this. Please help.

Sorry, I'm not sure what causes your problem.

I'm just wondering why you want to build your own toolchain. There are plenty of pre-built toolchains for ARM such as CodeSourcery, Emdebian and Linaro. Unless, you need to modify the toolchain for some reasons, you'd better use one of the pre-built toolchain.

Completely agree with cnxsoft. If it was easy to build a cross toolchain, there would be no need for packages like Crosstool-NG, which I strongly recommend if you really must build a cross toolchain yourself (and, yup, there are good reasons to do so, particularly with the bewildering number of combinations of elements related to ARM CPUs). Your problems are a perfect example of how things can go wrong.
Your current problem seems to be related to a Makefile. Certain versions of Cygwin's make is known to have some issues. I would suggest that Cygwin is probably not an optimal platform for building a cross toolchain. Perhaps consider installing a full-on Linux in a VM; I suggest Debian for cross development.

--- rod.