Trying to cross build busybox with ELDK 4.2

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Reinhard Thies <Reinhard.Thies at web.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27. October 2009 16:04:50 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Reinhard Thies <Reinhard.Thies at web.de>
> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am trying to cross-compile busybox using ELDK 4.2.
>> > When I try make I get the following error:
>> > ppc_6xx-gcc  -Wall -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes
>> > -Wunused -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-function -Wunused-value
>> > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wdeclaration-after-statement
>> > -Wold-style-definition -fno-builtin-strlen -finline-limit=0
>> > -fomit-frame-pointer -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
>> > -fno-guess-branch-probability -funsigned-char -static-libgcc
>> > -falign-functions=1 -falign-jumps=1 -falign-labels=1 -falign-loops=1 -Os
>> >   -std=gnu99 -Iinclude -Ilibbb  -include include/autoconf.h -D_GNU_SOURCE
>> > -DNDEBUG  -D"BB_VER=KBUILD_STR(1.16.0.git)" -DBB_BT=AUTOCONF_TIMESTAMP
>> > applets/usage_pod.c   m crypt -o applets/usage_pod
>> > ppc_6xx-gcc: m: No such file or directory
>> > ppc_6xx-gcc: crypt: No such file or directory
>> >
>> > Any ideas ?
>>
>> You have some environment variable (LDLIBS or some such)
>> which gets inserted into compile command and breaks it.
>>
>> Try "env - PATH=$PATH make". If it works, then this is it.
>> --
>> vda
>
> Denys,
>
> thanks its compiling now.

You just ran "env - PATH=$PATH make" without trying to figure out
what's wrong, right?

You need to find out how your environment ended up polluted,
not just blindly use a workaround.

 But stops at link time now with the following :
>
> Trying libraries: crypt m
>  Library crypt is not needed, excluding it
>  Library m is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
> Final link with: m
>
> So how can I add the libs ?

Did you notice that this isn't an _error_ message?
--
vda