I've chronicled my cross-toolchain mips-adventures at: http://www.ltc.com/~brad/mips/mipsel-linux-cross-toolchain-building.txt I included a copy of the glibc patch that has the MAP_BASE_ADDR fix in it in the same directory, namely: http://www.ltc.com/~brad/mips/ Regards, Brad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com> To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>; "Daniel Jacobowitz" <dan@debian.org> Cc: <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 10:44 PM Subject: Re: gcc 3.0 / glibc 2.2.3 cross-toolchain > Woohoo! It works! Thanks! I was using H. J. Lu's first patch and that was > broken. I found the second patch and it worked, except it left the first > line in rtld-ldscript.in, when it really should have removed the file > entirely. Looks like it's right in the glibc CVS though. > > Regards, > Brad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com> > To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <dan@debian.org> > Cc: <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:58 PM > Subject: Re: gcc 3.0 / glibc 2.2.3 cross-toolchain > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <dan@debian.org> > > To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com> > > Cc: <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:45 PM > > Subject: Re: gcc 3.0 / glibc 2.2.3 cross-toolchain > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 07:42:17PM -0400, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote: > > > > I have spent quite a bit of time trying to get a gcc 3.0 / glibc 2.2.3 > > > > cross-toolchain working. I am not a Toolchain Builder, but I really > > wanted > > > > to try this combo and I don't see any way around building it myself. > > > > > > > > I've had some success. Everything seems to build fine. However, when > I > > try > > > > to run a simple "hello world" dynamically linked with glibc, I get > this: > > > > > > > > <myprogram>: error while loading shared libraries: failed to map > > > > segment from shared object: cannot load shared object file: > Invalid > > > > argument > > > > > > > > I think it is trying to load libc.so.6, which is in my root in /lib/, > > > > symlinked to libc-2.2.3.so, and so is ld.so.1, symlinked to > ld-2.2.3.so. > > > > > > > > I feel like I am pretty close, but I am starting to get discouraged > and > > > > could really use some help. I really am clueless about what > > > > should/shouldn't work. I'm trying to do this based on bits and pieces > > of > > > > information that I've collected from countless sources. I have heard > > that > > > > gcc 3.0 isn't really "working", but I still want to try. > > > > > > > > Here is what I've used: > > > > > > > > * binutils-2.11.90.0.25.tar.gz (extracted from H. J. Lu's > > > > srpm on oss.sgi.com; I've tried others also) > > > > * gcc-3.0.tar.gz (released version - no patches) > > > > * glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.3.tar.gz (released version - no > > > > patches; glibc didn't want to configure without this) > > > > * glibc-2.2.3.tar.gz (released version) > > > > > > You're missing the patch to change MAP_BASE_ADDR. You need that. > > > Something as simple as changing it to 0 will work for you, since you're > > > building everything yourself. > > > > I tried applying the patch that H. J. Lu posted on linux-mips that > contains > > that fix, but then glibc would compile. I'll try it again - maybe I > messed > > something up. If that doesn't work, I'll try the simple fix. Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Brad
