Gregor Waltz wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: >> You may want to switch to a recent binutils like 2.18 and gcc 4.2.2. > > Ralf, are you or anybody else using that combination for mips? > > With which versions of glibc and glibc-linuxthreads? > > I have been having a joyous time trying to build more recent tools. > I keep getting errors like the following when building glibc of any > version (tried from 2.3.6 through 2.7): > sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitid.c:51: error: memory input 6 is not > directly addressable > > I found a patch for that > (http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2005-04/msg00208.html), but, after > passing that file, it fails similarly on pread.c. It seems to be an > issue with INLINE_SYSCALL, rather than the call sites, that appears to > be related to later versions of gcc. > > Later versions of glibc (2.7, 2.6...) fail at configure time with the > error: "The mipsel is not supported." This suggests you are missing the "ports" add-on. > So, what are the lastest versions of the build tools that people are > using on mips? Debian uses binutils 2.18+, gcc 4.2 and glibc 2.7 in the "unstable" development branch. This environment works fine for me. Thiemo
