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From: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@×××.net>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Re: Appropriate toolchain for a SPARC?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:18:25
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0701211215220.6927-100000@lnx.bridge.intra
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Re: Appropriate toolchain for a SPARC? by Dimitris Lampridis
1 On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Dimitris Lampridis wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:47 +0100, Dimitris Lampridis wrote:
4 > > I want to build a cross toolchain on an x86 system, to be able to
5 > > compile for SPARC without hardware floating point support, using uclibc.
6 > > I've done some attempts already but they all fail (for various reasons).
7 > > Up until now, I have not succeeded 100%. So I thought I should do it in
8 > > the proper way, starting from the beginning:
9 > >
10 > > Could you please let me know if there is a specific combination of
11 > > binutils, gcc, uclibc etc., that is well-known to work for a
12 > > sparc-softfloat-linux-uclibc target?
13 > >
14 > > thank you in advance,
15 > > Dimitris
16 > >
17 > > PS: I currently try with:
18 > > binutils-2.17
19 > > gcc-4.1.1-r3
20 > > linux-headers-2.6.19.2-r1
21 > > uclibc-0.9.28-r2
22 > >
23 >
24 > nobody yet? Well, I've been trying several combinations of the programs,
25 > and they still all fail. I've had success with binutils-2.17, with gcc
26 > 3.4.1-r3, 3.4.4-r1 and 4.1.1-r3, but no luck with uclibc.
27 >
28 > I've tried uclibc 0.9.28-r2, 0.9.28-r1 and 0.9.28 (as well as 0.9.27
29 > that apparently does not support sparc?), and every time they fail on
30 > the same problem, complaining about duplicate "_start" symbol in ldso.c.
31 > I've attached my uclibc emerge log, hopefully someone can propose
32 > something?
33 >
34 > thank you,
35 > Dimitris
36
37 you may try to use uclibc-svn (no ebuild for it), some sparc support was
38 added.
39
40 Peter
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