Trying to cross build busybox with ELDK 4.2

[walter harms]

Reinhard Thies schrieb:
> On Tuesday, 27. October 2009 19:14:33 Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> 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
> Denys,
> 
>> 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.
>>
> You doing me wrong. The only thing you are rigth with is that I am nearly 
> blind. I tried to figure out but was not able to find .
> 
>> Did you notice that this isn't an _error_ message?
> Sorry, no I didn't. If I did I hadn't asked.
> 
> So what is it telling me ?
> 
> Thx,
> Reinhard
> 

i hope you are talking about this here:

 Trying libraries: crypt m
 Library crypt is not needed, excluding it
 Library m is needed, can't exclude it (yet)
 Final link with: m



it simply states that the final product (busybox) is linked
with libm only.

re,
 wh