PowerPC snapshot compilation failures

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just tried to compile today's snapshot in a IBM pSeries box, and it 
> was unsuccessfull. Bellow, there is a summary of the errors with some 
> comments
> 
> - vfork.S fails to compile. If the line #include <error.h> is wipped out 
> from libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/bits/syscalls.h, everything seems to 
> flow okay. As the intel file does not include this file, I'm assuming 
> that it should not be there anyway.
> 
> - linuxthreads compilation fails. It goes okay if I comment out the 
> following definitions from libc/sysdeps/linux/powerpc/sys/procfs.h :
> 
> 	* ELF_NVRREG
> 	* elf_greg_t
> 	* elf_gregset_t
> 	* elf_fpreg_t
> 	* elf_fpregset_t
> 	* elf_vrreg_t
> 	* elf_vrregset_t
> 
> It seems that the ppc kernel defines them in its own way at 
> include/asm/elf.h
> 
> Though it does seems easy #ifdef placement problems, you guys surely
> know where to place them better than I do.
> 
> Please, note that it is my first contact to uclibc, so I'm sorry if 
> I'm saying stupid things at all :-)
> 
> BTW, compilation does not suceed at all, receiving an error message when
> compiling shared libraries, but I'm done for today. Just in case it helps
> somebody, I'm also posting the error message:
> 
> ld  -shared --warn-common --warn-once -z combreloc -z defs -s -soname=libdl.so.0 \
> -o libdl-0.9.28.so -fini dl_cleanup --whole-archive libdl_pic.a \
> --no-whole-archive ../..//libc/misc/internals/interp.o \
> -L../..//lib -lc  ../../lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/3.3.3/libgcc.a;
> ld: Error: The symbol `__syscall_error' has a R_PPC_REL24 relocation, that means '../..//lib/libc.a(brk.o)' was
> compiled without -fPIC.

try a newer snapshot, it should fail at least less times

Peter

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