error compiling GNU-ARM binutils

leedude · 11-23-2008, 03:24 PM

hi, i am trying to compile a toolchain for an ARM target(never done this successfully).
i just got an error whilst running "make all install" for binutils:

Code:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c:23: warning: useless type name in empty declaration
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c: In function ‘ar_emul_usage’:
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c:28: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c: In function ‘ar_emul_append’:
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c:43: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c: In function ‘ar_emul_replace’:
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c:69: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c: In function ‘ar_emul_parse_arg’:
/home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c:95: error: expected expression before ‘.’ token
make[4]: *** [binemul.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/arm-elf-tools/gcc-4.1.1/build-binutils/binutils'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/arm-elf-tools/gcc-4.1.1/build-binutils/binutils'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/arm-elf-tools/gcc-4.1.1/build-binutils/binutils'
make[1]: *** [all-binutils] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/arm-elf-tools/gcc-4.1.1/build-binutils'
make: *** [all] Error 2

what now????

any help would be appreciated.

pinniped · 11-23-2008, 04:04 PM

The first thing to do is look at: /home/ray/Desktop/binutils-2.17/binutils/binemul.c and find out what is ultimately causing those errors.

knudfl · 11-24-2008, 04:38 AM

Binutils should be the easy part, but you will need
a build directory outside binutils-2.17 .

e.g. /home/ray/tmp/binutils-2.17
and /home/ray/tmp/build-binutils

One possible procedure is here
http://www.gnuarm.org/

And thus "configure" could be
cd tmp/build-binutils
sh ../binutils-2.17/configure --target=arm-elf \
--prefix="place-to-install-crosstools" --enable-interwork \
--enable-multilib --with-float=soft