Re: mips linux glibc-2.3.3 build - linker errors

["T. P. Saravanan" <sara@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

T. P. Saravanan wrote:

> ar -d lib_pic.a strtold.os
>
> got me be beyond this point. (If somebody knows that this is not the 
> way to do it - let me know.)
>
> -Sa.
Further liker errors:

sara@eyeore: [over] ~/build/glibc/objdir6$ make
make -r PARALLELMFLAGS="" CVSOPTS="" -C ../glibc-2.3.3 objdir=`pwd` all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3'
make  -C csu subdir_lib
.
.
.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/time'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/elf'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3/elf'
gcc -mabi=32   -nostdlib -nostartfiles -r -o 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc_pic.os \
-Wl,-d -Wl,--whole-archive /home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc_pic.a
gcc -mabi=32   -shared -Wl,-O1 \
 -nostdlib -nostartfiles \
  -Wl,-dynamic-linker=/home/sara/usr/local/lib/ld.so.1  \
 -Wl,--verbose 2>&1 | \
 sed > /home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/shlib.ldsT \
     -e '/^=========/,/^=========/!d;/^=========/d' \
     -e 's/^.*\.hash[     ]*:.*$/  .note.ABI-tag : { *(.note.ABI-tag) } 
&/' \
     -e 's/^.*\*(\.dynbss).*$/& \
    PROVIDE(__start___libc_freeres_ptrs = .); \
    *(__libc_freeres_ptrs) \
    PROVIDE(__stop___libc_freeres_ptrs = .);/'
mv -f /home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/shlib.ldsT 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/shlib.lds
gcc -mabi=32   -shared -static-libgcc -Wl,-O1  -Wl,-z,defs 
-Wl,-dynamic-linker=/home/sara/usr/local/lib/ld.so.1  
-B/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/csu/  
-Wl,--version-script=/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc.map 
-Wl,-soname=libc.so.6  -nostdlib -nostartfiles -e __libc_main 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6 -L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/math 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/elf 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/dlfcn 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/nss 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/nis -L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/rt 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/resolv 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/crypt 
-L/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/linuxthreads 
-Wl,-rpath-link=/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/math:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/elf:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/dlfcn:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/nss:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/nis:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/rt:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/resolv:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/crypt:/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/linuxthreads 
-o /home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc.so -T 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/shlib.lds 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/csu/abi-note.o 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/elf/soinit.os 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc_pic.os 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/elf/sofini.os 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/elf/interp.os 
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/elf/ld.so -lgcc -lgcc_eh
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc_pic.os(.text+0x88f3c): In function 
`round_and_return':
../stdlib/strtod.c:296: undefined reference to `__mpn_construct_long_double'
/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc_pic.os(.text+0x920bc):../stdlib/strtod.c:296: 
undefined reference to `__mpn_construct_long_double'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/home/sara/build/glibc/objdir6/libc.so] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sara/build/glibc/glibc-2.3.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Anybody knows how to fix this?

-Sa.