Regarding GCC mips64 cross compiler for x86

[Bryan Hundven]

Sasikumar,

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy <ckmsasi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> Found the option to build the regular cross toolchain using glibc. But, am
> getting below error while extracting the newlibc. Here, i haven't selected
> newlib in the config, but still ct-ng is trying to build newlib-2.2.0. Is it
> expected?

If you change the config run `ct-ng clean` before running `ct-ng build` again.
You have to clean out the build directory first! :)

> ALL  ]    mode of `./config.sub' retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)
> [ALL  ]    `/crossng/bldcng/crosstool-ng/scripts/config.sub' ->
> `./config.sub'
> [DEBUG]    ==> Executing: 'touch'
> '/crossng/bldcng/ctc/.build/src/.gcc-5.2.0.patched'
> [DEBUG]    ==> Executing: 'rm' '-f'
> '/crossng/bldcng/ctc/.build/src/.gcc-5.2.0.patching'
> [DEBUG]    ==> Executing: 'touch'
> '/crossng/bldcng/ctc/.build/src/.newlib-2.2.0.extracting'
> [DEBUG]    Entering '/crossng/bldcng/ctc/.build/src'
> [EXTRA]    Extracting 'newlib-2.2.0'
> [DEBUG]    ==> Executing: 'mkdir' '-p' 'newlib-2.2.0'
> [DEBUG]    ==> Executing: 'tar' '--strip-components=1' '-C' 'newlib-2.2.0'
> '-xv' '-f' '-'
> [FILE ]    tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> [FILE ]    tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> [ERROR]
> [ERROR]  >>
> [ERROR]  >>  Build failed in step 'Extracting and patching toolchain
> components'
> [ERROR]  >>        called in step '(top-level)'
> [ERROR]  >>
> [ERROR]  >>  Error happened in: CT_DoExecLog[scripts/functions@257]
> [ERROR]  >>        called from: CT_Extract[scripts/functions@982]
> [ERROR]  >>        called from:
> do_libc_extract[scripts/build/libc/newlib.sh@39]
> [ERROR]  >>        called from: main[scripts/crosstool-NG.sh@609]
> [ERROR]  >>
> [ERROR]  >>  For more info on this error, look at the file: 'build.log'
> [ERROR]  >>  There is a list of known issues, some with workarounds, in:
> [ERROR]  >>      '/crossng/bldcng/crosstool-ng/docs/B - Known issue
>
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Sasi
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy <ckmsasi@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a lot Bryan. That worked. Currently, build is in progress.
>>
>> Another clarification, does it build elf/abi bare metal cross toolchain or
>> regular gcc cross toolchain? Because i would like build regular cross
>> toolchain and didn't see any option in menuconfig regarding the same.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Sasi
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sasikumar,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy <ckmsasi@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Steve/Bryan,
>>> >
>>> > My linux machine is doesn't have latest autoconf to configure the
>>> > crosstool-ng and i don't have permission to upgrade the autoconf and
>>> > dependency software.
>>> >
>>> > How can i get the latest version of crosstool-ng with the above fix?
>>> > Also, i
>>> > hope, we can configure crosstool-ng manually.
>>>
>>> You could just install autoconf, automake, and libtool to a local
>>> path, say: $HOME/autotools
>>>
>>> get the source for each...
>>> ./configure --prefix="$HOME/autotools"
>>> make
>>> make install
>>> export PATH="$HOME/autotools:$PATH"
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -Bryan
>>>
>>> > Thanks & Regards
>>> > Sasi
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Steve Ellcey <sellcey@imgtec.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 14:19 -0800, Bryan Hundven wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> > > Oh! I see now. 64-bit should not need to be marked as
>>> >> > > experimental!
>>> >> > > I will make sure that is fixed in 1.22.0 (which will be releasing
>>> >> > > soon!)!
>>> >> >
>>> >> > My apologies for not noticing the issue sooner! This is now fixed in
>>> >> > git and will be fixed in 1.22.0:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/commit/4be766254d2368901513aa25fefbaa383092f3cd
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks!
>>> >> >
>>> >> > -Bryan
>>> >>
>>> >> FYI: I downloaded the latest crosstool-ng sources and was able to
>>> >> successfully build a mips64 toolchain (n64 ABI) that included Fortran.
>>> >>
>>> >> Steve Ellcey
>>> >> sellcey@imgtec.com
>>> >>
>>> >
>>
>>
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