Re: [gentoo-embedded] musl: static-linking fails with crossdev built toolchain

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 10/31/17 9:36 AM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 01:17:57PM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>> I know its not what you are trying to do, but do you know if the
>> stage3's in experitmental/arm/musl have the same problem?
>>
> I do not have the same issue with the stage3's in experimental/arm/musl -
> those allow static linking without issues. But I debugged further and
> found the issue: the ebuild uses the wrong strip command (host one) when
> stripping the built cross-musl. This makes it bug #552616 and I should
> have found it sooner because there are lots of messages like the following
> in the build-log:
>
>     x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-strip: Unable to recognise the format of the input file `/var/tmp/portage/cross-armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/musl-1.1.16/image/usr/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/usr/lib/libc.a(cabs.o)'
>
> For now I solved the issue with RESTRICT="strip" but manual stripping
> similar to glibc probably should be added at some point.
>
> There's also another issue with the ebuild and cross-compiling: the
> getconf/getent/iconv tools get built before a libc is available and so
> fail to compile. They shouldn't even be built when cross-compiling,
> because there's a check in src_install to prevent them from being
> installed. Below is my patch to the ebuild to make things work. Would be
> nice to atleast get the src_compile() part commited.
>
I'm not going to add RESTRICT="strip".  Do that locally.  The rest is
okay.  I'll add it to 1.1.18.

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