On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:32:23PM -0800, Nathan Field wrote: > This email is a bit long so here's the short version: > Building cross tools is basically impossible without knowledge > which isn't available on the www.linux-mips.org web site > glibc seems to have obvious syntax errors and won't even compile > The prebuilt tools referenced in the FAQ are so out of date > they're useless > Even tools provided by various commercial Linux vendors are out of > date (at least what MontaVista lets us see in their preview kits) Try a different preview kit. I'm told that some of the MIPS preview kits were updated for 3.0 and some weren't, and that's all I know about that. > This could all be solved if someone wrote a script to do all the > work which contains all the logic necessary to get a known set of tools to > build > > I've written a script which will do all the work, but because there are You _HAVE_ looked at crosstool, right? Which does all of this, and does work? > sscanf (s, format) > const char *s; > const char *format; > > Doesn't match the function, and it should be: > > sscanf (const char *s, const char *format, ...) > > Does no one even bother to test to see if these things compile before they > are released? I've had similar syntax error type problems when building > several older (2.2.x) versions of glibc for PPC. Come on, think. Glibc 2.3.2 was released before GCC 3.3. It built at the time; if you use GCC 3.2 that will compile. If you want to use GCC 3.3, then use a newer CVS snapshot of glibc. Which I recommend, but is still not for the faint of heart. If you're just trying to build a kernel as you said later, why are you building glibc anyway? > Anyway, after I fixed that I now get a link failure: > > /space1/ndf/linux/mips/tools/glibc-build/elf/ld.so.1: undefined reference > to `elf_machine_rela.7' Google will be delighted to explain the controversy of -finline-limit-10000 to you. Or use crosstool :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
