[Buildroot] Binary toolchain fails
Ulf Samuelsson
ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com
Sun Feb 1 14:00:46 UTC 2009
sön 2009-02-01 klockan 14:06 +0100 skrev Peter Korsgaard:
> >>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com> writes:
>
> Ulf> I am testing the binary toolchain, with a toolchain built
> Ulf> by another buildroot project.
>
> The external toolchain stuff? That's afaik known to not work.
>
> Ulf> Several packages does not build correctly.
>
> Ulf> "-lintl" and "-liconv are" not found.
>
> Strange, so the packages don't respect CFLAGS / LDFLAGS?
>
> Ulf> Examples are "e2fsprogs" and "libgpg-error"
>
> Ulf> by doing
>
>
> Ulf> ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBICONV),y)
> Ulf> LIBGPG_ERROR_CONF_OPT += --with-libiconv-prefix=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
> Ulf> endif
>
> Ulf> ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBINTL),y)
> Ulf> LIBGPG_ERROR_CONF_OPT += --with-libintl-prefix=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr
> Ulf> endif
>
> And what about the 10s of other libraries we have? To me it seems like
> something else is broken in the external toolchain stuff, and this is
> just pampering over it.
>
> Ulf> KERNEL HEADERS
> Ulf> --------------
> Ulf> If you build just the toolchain to, lets say, /usr/local/arm/gcc-4.3.2,
> Ulf> and use this directory as GCCROOT in your external toolchain,
> Ulf> you have no kernel-headers.
>
> Ulf> Should the kernel headers really be installed in
> Ulf> toolchain_build_ARCH/linux?
> Ulf> Why not in "$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/linux" ?
>
> Ulf> If you are not building a toolchain from source, then
> Ulf> the kernel-headers target is not available.
> Ulf> I moved them out from the if BUILDROOT_TOOLCHAIN_SOURCE
> Ulf> clause so they build for me, but I think that
> Ulf> is the wrong solution and generating the headers in
> Ulf> "$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/linux" is better.
>
> Ulf> Comments?
>
> The kernel headers are pretty closely related to the C library, and
> hence the toolchain, so my initial thought is that it sounds wrong.
I think the kernel headers should be in $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/linux
You think this is wrong?
THe other thing is just a workadound!
BR
Ulf Samuelsson
> But if you want to work on making the external toolchain stuff less
> broken AFTER the release, then that's fine as long as it doesn't add
> too much complications and the internal toolchain stuff keeps working.
>
> --
> Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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