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

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 10/27/17 3:27 PM, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to build a musl based cross-compilation toolchain for
> building static packages. With:
>
>     CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" crossdev -s4 -t armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi
>
> I get a *working* toolchain, with which i can build dynamically linked
> executables, but static linking of libc fails. For example, the simple
> C program
>
>     #include <stdio.h>
>     int main()
>     {
>             puts("hello");
>     }
>
> gives:
>
>     $ armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi-gcc main.c -static
>     /usr/libexec/gcc/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/ld: skipping
> incompatible /usr/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/usr/lib/libc.a when
> searching for -lc
>     /usr/libexec/gcc/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/ld: skipping
> incompatible /usr/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/usr/lib/libc.a when
> searching for -lc
>     /usr/libexec/gcc/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-musleabi/ld: cannot find -lc
>
> I'm trying to track down what could be causing this, but so far
> haven't found anything (tried disabling PIE but same result). The
> crossdev toolchain uses musl 1.1.17, gcc 6.4.0 and binutils 2.29.1-r1.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> Jeremi

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?

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