Troubles in building cross compiler (error @ binutils)

saistain · 10-14-2007, 09:54 PM

Hi

I'm trying to build a cross compiler toolchain to compile on my PC to Mac. I've hit an error on building binutils stage (first step). I was wondering if anyone can guess what the problem is.

Before I post the error log, I'll give a brief description of my process:
-My project folder is /common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler
-In this folder, I downloaded and unzipped binutils, gcc, gdb, uclibc
-I set $TARGET as powerpc-linux (shouldn't matter what the target OS is, since all kernels are POSIX right?)
-I set $PREFIX as /common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/powerpc-linux
-I add that to $PATH
-made a new folder build-binutils and ran configure from inside that folder. Configure went smoothly
-ran make all inside that folder. hit the error

Code:

[saistain XCompiler]$ setenv TARGET powerpc-linux
[saistain XCompiler]$ echo $TARGET
powerpc-linux
[saistain XCompiler]$ setenv PREFIX /common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/$TARGET
[saistain XCompiler]$ echo $PREFIX
/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/powerpc-linux
[saistain XCompiler]$ setenv PATH ${PATH}:$PREFIX/bin
[saistain XCompiler]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/java/bin:/opt /vlsi/synopsys/ai_bin:/opt/vlsi/synopsys/linux/syn/bin:/opt/vlsi/synopsys/hspice /linux:/opt/vlsi/synopsys/bin:/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/powerpc-linux/bin
[saistain XCompiler]$ mkdir build-binutils
[saistain XCompiler]$ cd build-binutils/
[saistain build-binutils]$ ../binutils-2.9.1/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX

[saistain build-binutils]$ make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/build-binutils/libiberty'
if [ -n "" ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then \
mkdir pic; \
else true; fi
touch stamp-picdir
echo "# !Automatically generated from ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/functions.def"\
"- DO NOT EDIT!" >needed2.awk
grep '^DEFVAR(' < ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/functions.def \
| sed -e '/DEFVAR/s|DEFVAR.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf "#ifndef NEED_\1\\n#define NEED_\1\\n#endif\\n" }|' \
>>needed2.awk
grep '^DEFFUNC(' < ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/functions.def \
| sed -e '/DEFFUNC/s|DEFFUNC.\([^,]*\).*|/\1/ { printf "#ifndef NEED_\1\\n#define NEED_\1\\n#endif\\n" }|' \
>>needed2.awk
gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/../include ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/dummy.c 2>/dev/null
make[1]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/common/Shared/Projects/XCompiler/build-binutils/libiberty'
make: *** [all-libiberty] Error 2

note: the output from configure was snipped, since it was too long, but it was successful. I can post it if necessary

yea if anybody has any idea at all it'll be greatly appreciated. thx for ur time!

studioj · 10-15-2007, 01:11 AM

Code:

gcc -c -g -O2 -I. -I../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/../include ../../binutils-2.9.1/libiberty/dummy.c 2>/dev/null

this compile line is ending in 2>/dev/null which i think is dumping all the error messages down the drain.

i think try to take that 2>/dev/null out of the makefile so you can see errors.
or even enter the compile command by hand without the 2>/dev/null

saistain · 10-15-2007, 01:33 AM

actually I think I solved my own problem - my version of binutils is too old - something must have changed in binutils that the native gcc on my system doesn't recognise it

I'll test with latest binutils

thx for the reply!

saistain · 10-15-2007, 06:37 AM

I managed to make and install binutils (well I'm not sure it's successful, but it didn't return any errors)

Now gcc is giving me errors

I configured with this command:
../gcc-4.2.2/configure --target=$TARGET --prefix=$PREFIX --without-headers --with-newlib -with-gnu-as -with-gnu-ld

make all-gcc ran for a long time (about 10 mins) before returning this error:

Code:

/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux/bin/ar  rc
./libgcov.a libgcc/./_gcov.o libgcc/./_gcov_merge_add.o
libgcc/./_gcov_merge_single.o libgcc/./_gcov_merge_delta.o libgcc/./_gcov_fork.o
libgcc/./_gcov_execl.o libgcc/./_gcov_execlp.o libgcc/./_gcov_execle.o
libgcc/./_gcov_execv.o libgcc/./_gcov_execvp.o libgcc/./_gcov_execve.o
libgcc/./_gcov_interval_profiler.o libgcc/./_gcov_pow2_profiler.o
libgcc/./_gcov_one_value_profiler.o
/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux/bin/ranlib
./libgcov.a
/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/build-gcc/./gcc/xgcc
-B/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/build-gcc/./gcc/
-B/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux/bin/
-B/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux/lib/ -isystem
/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux/include -isystem
/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/powerpc-linux/powerpc-linux/sys-include -O2
-O2 -g -O2  -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_COMPILE   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition  -isystem
./include  -fPIC -mlong-double-128 -g -DHAVE_GTHR_DEFAULT -DIN_LIBGCC2
-D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -Dinhibit_libc -I. -I. -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc
-I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/. -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../include
-I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../libcpp/include  -I../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/../libdecnumber
-I../libdecnumber -fPIC -mstrict-align -fexceptions -fvisibility=hidden
-DHIDE_EXPORTS -c ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c -o libgcc/./unwind-dw2.o
In file included from ./gthr-default.h:1,
                 from ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr.h:114,
                 from ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:42:
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:43:21: error: pthread.h: No such file or
directory
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:44:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or
directory
In file included from ./gthr-default.h:1,
                 from ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr.h:114,
                 from ../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:42:
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:46: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘__gthread_key_t’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:47: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘__gthread_once_t’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:48: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘__gthread_mutex_t’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:49: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘__gthread_recursive_mutex_t’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:92: error: ‘pthread_once’ undeclared here (not
in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:92: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_once’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:93: error: ‘pthread_getspecific’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:93: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_getspecific’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:94: error: ‘pthread_setspecific’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:94: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_setspecific’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:95: error: ‘pthread_create’ undeclared here
(not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:95: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_create’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:96: error: ‘pthread_cancel’ undeclared here
(not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:96: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_cancel’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:97: error: ‘pthread_mutex_lock’ undeclared here
(not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:97: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutex_lock’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:98: error: ‘pthread_mutex_trylock’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:98: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutex_trylock’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:99: error: ‘pthread_mutex_unlock’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:99: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutex_unlock’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:100: error: ‘pthread_mutex_init’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:100: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutex_init’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:103: error: ‘pthread_key_create’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:103: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_key_create’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:104: error: ‘pthread_key_delete’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:104: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_key_delete’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:105: error: ‘pthread_mutexattr_init’ undeclared
here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:105: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutexattr_init’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:106: error: ‘pthread_mutexattr_settype’
undeclared here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:106: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutexattr_settype’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:107: error: ‘pthread_mutexattr_destroy’
undeclared here (not in a function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:107: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in
declaration of ‘__gthrw_pthread_mutexattr_destroy’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:572: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:581: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:587: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘key’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:593: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘key’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:599: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘key’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:605: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:614: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:623: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:633: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:654: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:660: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/gthr-posix.h:666: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c: In function ‘uw_init_context_1’:
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1417: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘once_regsizes’
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1417: error: ‘once_regsizes’ undeclared (first
use in this function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1417: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1417: error: for each function it appears in.)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1417: error: ‘PTHREAD_ONCE_INIT’ undeclared
(first use in this function)
../../gcc-4.2.2/gcc/unwind-dw2.c:1418: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘__gthread_once’
make[2]: *** [libgcc/./unwind-dw2.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/build-gcc/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stmp-multilib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/common/Shared/Projects/MP3Decoder/build-gcc/gcc'
make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2

what's the problem? why does make always return errors? does it every work first time?