Hi,
thank you for your quick reply. My final target is to reproduce an old
setup for i386 and powerpc, and I guess I need to tweak some command
line options. Once I tried to modify Debian compiler but I found it
was very complicated :)
Steffen
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:31 PM, LMH <lmh_users-groups@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steffen Dettmer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in short:
>> How to build a gcc3 host=x86-linux target=i386-old-linux today?
>> Are there alternatives?
>>
>> --long:
>> I'd have to build old 32 bit applications for old i386 Linux
>> systems and would like to use a recent 64 bit Linux system to do
>> so. I think I should be able to install an old gcc3 as
>> cross-compiler.
>>
>> As first step I unpacked binutils-2.16.1a.tar.bz2 and
>> gcc-3.4.3.tar.gz, symlinked " bfd binutils gas gprof ld opcodes"
>> to gcc src dir in order to perform a "combined build", created an
>> objdir and ran configure --target=i386-myold-linux, which worked
>> (see below for the complete commands).
>>
>> I wondered why I don't need any headers of the old glibc to be
>> used and so far no kernel headers... Did I miss something here?
>> (Note: in later attempts, I tried various combinations with
>> --sys-root, but had no success either). I expected that I'd build
>> bintuils+gcc+glibc (some older egclib) against the headers from
>> the old target kernel. Am I on the right way at all?
>>
>> After configure, I tried "make", but it fails:
>>
>> gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2
>> -o .libs/size size.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o
>> ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so
>> -L/net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/3/objdir/libiberty/pic
>> -liberty ../libiberty/libiberty.a ./../intl/libintl.a -Wl,--rpath
>> -Wl,/net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/3/inst/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/i386-vcu-linux/lib
>> gcc: error: ./../intl/libintl.a: No such file or directory
>> Makefile:615: recipe for target 'size' failed
>>
>> just guessing I tried:
>>
>> make -C intl libintl.a
>>
>> which worked, so I repeated make. Now it fails a bit later with:
>>
>> gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2
>> -o .libs/size size.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o
>> ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so
>> -L/net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/3/objdir/libiberty/pic
>> -liberty ../libiberty/libiberty.a ./../intl/libintl.a -Wl,--rpath
>> -Wl,/net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/3/inst/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/i386-vcu-linux/libbucomm.o:
>> In function `make_tempname':
>> /net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/3/objdir/binutils/../../gcc-3.4.3/binutils/bucomm.c:425:
>> warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp' or
>> `mkdtemp'
>> ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so: undefined reference to `unlink_if_ordinary'
>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> Makefile:615: recipe for target 'size' failed
>>
>> and indeed
>>
>> nm libiberty/libiberty.a |grep unlink_if_ordinary
>>
>> finds nothing. Interestingly, when I build binutils in a
>> different object dir alone, I get a libiberty.a with:
>>
>> nm libiberty/libiberty.a |grep unlink_if_ordinary
>> 0000000000000000 T unlink_if_ordinary
>>
>> so as I already was hacking I just used the whole folder in my
>> gcc build tree and re-run make. This time it runs some more
>> seconds until it fails with:
>>
>> ../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/config/i386/linux.h:217:20: signal.h: No
>> such file or directory
>> ../../gcc-3.4.3/gcc/config/i386/linux.h:218:26:
>> sys/ucontext.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> in my kernel headers ("2.6.16.60-0.37_f594963d-bigsmp") I have
>> asm/ucontext.h, but no sys/ucontext.h. For a test, I copied
>> headers from target system to my inst/i386-vcu-linux/sys-include/
>> and some libs (crt*.o, libc.so and libm.so) to inst/i386-vcu-linux/lib.
>>
>> Make progresses but then fails with:
>>
>> checking for main in -lm... configure: error: Link tests are
>> not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
>> Makefile:21960: recipe for target 'configure-target-libstdc++-v3' failed
>> make: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1
>>
>> This time I had no idea what I could hack to progress.
>>
>> I also tried to build with newer binutils versions
>> (binutils-2.19.1, binutils-2.22.tar.bz2), but they try to compile
>> with -Werror which fails because of gcc49 warnings.
>>
>> I tried older (2.14), but had issues resulting in an attemp to
>> run flex. I also tried gcc-3.3.6 (which I actually would prefere)
>> without success.
>>
>> I even tried to build a native gcc3 first (with make bootstrap),
>> but it also failed. First, with libiberty, as above, when copying
>> it from binutils build, I get:
>>
>> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof -I.
>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUG -I../bfd -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/../include
>> -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/../bfd -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/../intl
>> -I../intl -I. -DLOCALEDIR="\"/net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/2/native/share/locale\""
>> -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -c
>> ../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/sparc.c
>> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof -I.
>> -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBUG -I../bfd -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/../include
>> -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/../bfd -I../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/../intl
>> -I../intl -I. -DLOCALEDIR="\"/net/dehecnas1/Homes/sdettmer/tmp/gcc3/2/native/share/locale\""
>> -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -c
>> ../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/mips.c
>> cc -c -o flat_bl.o ../../gcc-3.3.6/gprof/flat_bl.m
>> cc: error trying to exec 'cc1obj': execvp: No such file or directory
>> <builtin>: recipe for target 'flat_bl.o' failed
>> make[3]: *** [flat_bl.o] Error 1
>>
>> (after several calls to gcc it calls cc?)
>>
>> and when removing gprof from Makefile it progresses, but finally
>> I cannot link because it misses ctri.o (it is in
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o).
>>
>> How to build a gcc3 version today?
>>
>> Any hint, help or FAQ pointers appreciated! Google is not so
>> helpful when looking for older information...
>>
>> Steffen
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------->8=======
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> set -e
>>
>> function warn() { echo "$@" >&2 ; }
>> function die() { warn "FATAL: $@" ; exit 2 ; }
>>
>> #tar xjf binutils-2.16.1a.tar.bz2
>> #tar xzf gcc-3.4.3.tar.gz
>> #tar xzf glibc-2.3.4.tar.gz
>>
>> ( cd gcc-3.4.3/ && for d in bfd binutils gas gprof ld opcodes ; do ln
>> -sf ../binutils-2.16.1/$d . || die "failed to symlink binutils"; done
>> ) || die "error"
>>
>> test -d objdir || mkdir objdir
>> test -d binobjdir || mkdir binobjdir
>> test -d inst || mkdir inst
>>
>> #TODO
>> # mkdir inst/i386-vcu-linux/sys-include
>> # cd ... && ln -s ../../../dehetucks-includes/* .
>> # mkdir inst/i386-vcu-linux/lib/
>> # ctr*o, lib[cm].so
>>
>>
>> inst="`pwd`/inst"
>> # seems unused (but check inst/i386-vcu-linux/sys-include/)
>> test -d inst/sys-include || mkdir inst/sys-include
>> ( cd inst/sys-include && ln -sf
>> ../../linux-2.6.16.60-0.37_f594963d-bigsmp/linux linux )
>> ( cd inst/sys-include && ln -sf
>> ../../asm-2.6.16.60-0.37_f594963d-bigsmp/asm asm )
>> #test -d sysroot || mkdir sysroot
>>
>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
>> # TODO CHECK: should need old host triplet names?
>> # --with-system-zlib \
>> # --prefix=/usr/local/ \
>> # --with-local-prefix: Do not specify /usr
>> # --with-sysroot
>> # --with-clocale=generic https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2014-09/msg00010.html
>> # --with-cpu=generic # original gcc-3.3.6 tells this, but not supported here?
>>
>> cd objdir
>> ../gcc-3.4.3/configure \
>> --target=i386-vcu-linux \
>> --prefix=$inst \
>> --with-local-prefix=$inst \
>> --enable-threads=posix \
>> --enable-languages=c,c++ \
>> --enable-ssp --disable-libssp \
>> --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit \
>> --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new \
>> --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs \
>> --without-system-libunwind
>>
>> make -j8
>>
>
>
> Hello Steffen,
>
> Many flavors of linux still have gcc3 available. It is often called
> "legacy gcc" or something like that. I know that CentOS and OpenSUSE
> still have it. You can sometimes get it for Ubuntu buy using an older
> repository.
>
> I still compile and use gcc3/g77 code for 64-bit linux and this works
> just fine, so I would suggest finding an acceptable linux that still
> supports gcc3 instead of doing something more complicated.
>
> LMH
