GCC compilation error

[Kai Ruottu]

manjunatha wrote:
>     I downloaded binutils (binutils-2.16.1)  source file, done 
> configure, make and  installed at /usr/local/bin  for MIPS  as below:
>     # ./configure -target=mips-elf --program-prefix=mips-
>     # make
>     #make install
>    Then  I downloaded,  gcc-3.3.2  source and applied patch 
> gcc-uclibc-full01.patch.gz file with gcc-3.3.2  to enable the support 
> of uclibc dynamic linker.  I setup configure  as :
>    # ./configure -target=mips-elf  -prefix=/usr/local 
> -program-prefix=mips- -enable-language=c -program-suffix=
>   then compiled as :
>   #make
>   On compiling  I got the error:
>      /root/project/gcc-src/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/xgcc 
> -B/root/Project-Genesis1-uClibc-scratch/gcc-src/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/ 
> -B/usr/local/bin/mips-elf/bin/

 The 'mips-elf' targeted 'as', 'ld' etc. should be in the directory 
pointed with this last '-B'...

> -B/usr/local/bin/mips-elf/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/bin/mips-elf/include

 The 'mips-elf' targeted libraries and headers then SHOULD be in these 
two directories...
In your case some uClibc made for the 'mips' architecture, at least the 
headers....

> -O2  -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_COMPILE   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings 
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem ../include  -G 0 -g  
> -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -Dinhibit_libc -I. -I. -I. -I./. 
> -I./config -I./../include -DL_m16addsf3 -xassembler-with-cpp -c 
> ./config/mips/mips16.S -o libgcc/./_m16addsf3.o
> as: unrecognized option `-G'

 Simply the '/usr/local/bin/mips-elf/bin/as' was not found... And the 
native '/usr/bin/as'
was used.  Why this happened is easy to see. Leaving the '--prefix=' 
away from the
binutils configure defaulted to using the '--prefix=/usr/local', which 
is not the same
as used in the GCC configure.  So the clue will be got when looking 
where the right 'as'
is now and why it went there...  You simply lied about your GCC 
configure command :-)
Using a '--prefix=/usr/local/bin' instead of '--prefix=/usr/local' or 
leaving it totally away
just as you did in the binutils configure!

> I tried  # make  AS=mips-as

 Why?  Should this make any difference?  Please study the GCC 
environment settings
whether it uses the 'AS' for anything!  The build scripts, the Makefile 
etc. may use it
for something but AFAIK not GCC...