RE: [gentoo-alt] [PREFIX] bootstrapping on Interix

[Duft Markus]

>
> So, I spend some time with Interix again.  (I fear I'll have to use
> Windows not so long from now, so who knows it can save me...)


Hehehe *evil smile* :)



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> bash-3.2$ objdump
> objdump: error in loading shared libraries
> libopcodes-2.18.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
> That just feels like rpath is messed up for binutils.  Now it seems
> that
> binutils on Interix doesn't build ld and as, but includes them from the
> host.  That explains why they do work, but fairly any other tool, and
> libbfd are broken.  I cannot find and tool like ldd on Interix, and I
> haven't tried to compile scanelf, as I wonder if it's ELF at all
> (binutils says something like: ELF-like)...


No, it's not ELF :) it's PE, just like any other binary on windows.



>
> So, for those experts of you, wasn't it a good thing to install
> binutils?  Is there something missing?  What is the reason ld and as
> aren't compiled?


The "PE" ist the reason for not building as and ld. It simply doesn't work right now (because whats called PE from binutils POV is mingw/cygwin). Microsoft has binutils 2.17 patched for interix in interix 6.0 (with sources/patches available), but the patch is absolutely unportable to 2.18 *arg...*, and in some places looks really hack-ish... still, maybe using binutils 2.17 would be an option...



Maybe you want to have a look at http://prefix-launcher.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/prefix-launcher/eprefix-bootstrap/trunk/eprefix-bootstrap?view=markup. There i fixed all those issues you stumbled upon that don't belong in the tree (where the rest is ;)), and i think it's quite readable (also the binutils problem is fixed, though a little hackish too :))



Cheers, Markus



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