Problem building gcc 4.4.3 cross-compiler on Fedora 12

sdt · 03-28-2010, 12:10 PM

Hi, I am trying to build a gcc 4.4.3 cross-compiler. I downloaded the gcc 4.4.3 release, uncompressed it, made a new directory called gccbuild and cd'd there. I have already installed gmp, mpfr, and mpc in /usr/local

These are the commands I used:

Code:

configure --target=arm-linux --enable-languages=c --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local --with-mpc=/usr/local

make

However, the build fails with

Code:

checking for arm-linux-gcc... /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/home/steven/gccbuild/arm-linux/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
make[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/steven/gccbuild'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Output from gcc -v:

Code:

Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-redhat-linux
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch=i686 --build=i686-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.2 20091222 (Red Hat 4.4.2-20) (GCC)

What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this? Thanks.

Here is the relevant config.log

Code:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by GNU C Runtime Library configure 1.0, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.  Invocation command line was

  $ /home/steven/gcc-4.4.3/libgcc/configure --cache-file=./config.cache --enable-multilib --with-cross-host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local --with-mpc=/usr/local --enable-languages=c --program-transform-name=s,^,arm-linux-, --with-target-subdir=arm-linux --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=arm-linux --target=arm-linux --srcdir=../../../gcc-4.4.3/libgcc

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uname -v = #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 20:22:46 UTC 2010

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo               = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /home/steven/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:1199: creating cache ./config.cache
configure:1388: checking for --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs
configure:1403: result: no
configure:1435: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:1490: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:1506: checking for gawk
configure:1522: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:1532: result: gawk
configure:1555: checking build system type
configure:1573: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:1581: checking host system type
configure:1595: result: arm-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:1654: checking for arm-linux-ar
configure:1680: result: arm-linux-ar
configure:1733: checking for arm-linux-lipo
configure:1759: result: arm-linux-lipo
configure:1813: checking for arm-linux-nm
configure:1839: result: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/nm
configure:1892: checking for arm-linux-ranlib
configure:1918: result: arm-linux-ranlib
configure:1972: checking for arm-linux-strip
configure:1998: result: arm-linux-strip
configure:2049: checking whether ln -s works
configure:2053: result: yes
configure:2070: checking for arm-linux-gcc
configure:2096: result: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include
configure:2380: checking for C compiler version
configure:2383: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include --version </dev/null >&5
xgcc (GCC) 4.4.3
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2386: $? = 0
configure:2388: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include -v </dev/null >&5
Reading specs from /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/specs
Target: arm-linux
Configured with: ../gcc-4.4.3/configure --target=arm-linux --enable-languages=c --with-gmp=/usr/local --with-mpfr=/usr/local --with-mpc=/usr/local
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) 
configure:2391: $? = 0
configure:2393: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include -V </dev/null >&5
xgcc: '-V' must come at the start of the command line
configure:2396: $? = 1
configure:2415: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include -o conftest -g -O2     conftest.c  >&5
/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/as: line 76: exec: : not found
configure:2418: $? = 1
configure:2590: checking for suffix of object files
configure:2611: /home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/bin/ -B/usr/local/arm-linux/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/include -isystem /usr/local/arm-linux/sys-include -c -g -O2    conftest.c >&5
/home/steven/gccbuild/./gcc/as: line 76: exec: : not found
configure:2614: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Runtime Library"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libgcc"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Runtime Library 1.0"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2627: error: in `/home/steven/gccbuild/arm-linux/libgcc':
configure:2630: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.

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## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

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#define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Runtime Library"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Runtime Library 1.0"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libgcc"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0"

configure: exit 1

theNbomr · 03-28-2010, 03:10 PM

I strongly recommend using a tool that has built-in knowledge of cross toolchain building. The one I use is crosstool-NG, which is currently supported and has an active mailing list support community. Using such a tool makes the plethora of problems such as you have encountered disappear, mostly. Having said this, I found that using it on Fedora 11 and earlier releases, as well as all RHEL releases did not work due to some older or missing dependencies. My preferred platform for cross toolchain building is Debian (5.02).

--- rod.

knudfl · 03-28-2010, 03:14 PM

Welcome to LQ.

There is no such thing as a standalone cross-compiler (arm-linux-gcc).
A complete tool chain is required. Simplified example :
http://www.gnuarm.com/
http://www.gnuarm.com/support.html#build
Minimum : 1) First thing to build is the "arm binutils"
2) gcc , 3) A libc, one of: glibc, newlib, eglibc, uClibc, etc.
4) And may be a debugger : gdb or insight.
If you are very skilled at building cross compilers, it is said
to be possible to do in about a week.

Therefore a build tool like crosstool-NG is to be preferred,
and recommended. Already said by @theNbomr, while I wrote this.
It is continiously maintained, the last update was two weeks ago.
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/dokuwiki/projects/crosstool
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/dokuwiki...load_and_usage
hg clone http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/hg/crosstool-ng
The package 'mercurial' providing /usr/bin/hg is required.
.....