Re: Building a cross compiler fails due to hardcoding host=target in gcc/Makefile.in

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Sorry, i found bug https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=94761 so
I'll continue there tomorrow.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 11:39 pm William ML Leslie, <
william.leslie.ttg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Please keep me CC'd as I'm not subscribed.
>
> I've been trying to build a cross compilation toolchain (for a new OS)
> and ran into a confusing error while building gcc 10.2.0.  While
> building libgcc, it fails running libgcc/config.host as it gets passed
> my target instead of the actual host.  I traced this back to the root
> Makefile.in, for which the `configure-target-libgcc` rule ends with:
>
>     CONFIG_SITE=no-such-file $(SHELL) \
>       $$s/$$module_srcdir/configure \
>       --srcdir=$${topdir}/$$module_srcdir \
>       $(TARGET_CONFIGARGS) --build=${build_alias} --host=${target_alias} \
>       --target=${target_alias}  \
>       || exit 1
>
> This is probably someone trying to be helpful when building a Canadian
> Cross (host == target), however there is already a host_alias variable
> defined at the very top of `Makefile.in`.  When using a traditional
> cross compiler, the host is equal to the build machine; but the
> makefile ignores this case.
>
> Have I missed something, or should I send a patch for this?
>
> Snippet of make output where I hit this:
>
> Checking multilib configuration for libgcc...
> mkdir -p -- i386-unknown-capros/libgcc
> Configuring in i386-unknown-capros/libgcc
> ...
> checking for target glibc version... 0.0
> *** Configuration i386-unknown-capros not supported
> Makefile:12629: recipe for target 'configure-target-libgcc' failed
> make[1]: *** [configure-target-libgcc] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> '/extra/wleslie/xenv2/build/gcc-10.2.0/build-capros'
> Makefile:954: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
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