bootstrap failure on sparc ultra 60

bl00mie

i'm trying to do a hardened gentoo install on a sparc ultra60 box using the sparc 2004.3 liveCD (using gentoo-2.4 boot parameter instead of gentoo-2.4-smp, 'cause that always made my system hang during boot....), and am having trouble bootstrapping.

it makes it a fair part of the way... fails on configuring glibc with this error: "checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile"

here's the "Core Tests" section of my config.log: (i had to hand copy 'cause my sys admin has a pretty strict firewall

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bl00mie · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject:

i tried mv'ing gcc to gcc_old and made a symbolic link from gcc to the sparc64 gcc and then running bootstrap.sh again... it got a little farther and started compiling things, but failed again, not liking "-fno-pie" and "-fno-PIE".

is hardened gentoo on a sparc a pipe-dream?

bl00mie · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

i just realized that i wasn't using a hardened make.profile.

but upon looking in /usr/portage/profiles/hardened, i see no sparc... only amd64, ppc, and x86. does anyone know what might need to change to mod one of these to make it sparc-friendly??

Ferris · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

Hardened works for me; at least, adding "hardened" to my USE flags in make.conf gives me a hardened gcc, glibc, etc.

However, I doubt that you want to be using gcc64. Unless you are trying to build 64-bit user space (which is not really supported), you want to use 'gcc' for your C-compiler, and you want something like:

make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3/
and in make.conf,
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
(gcc64 is needed for building the kernel)

I do not think there is a hardened profile per se, but I believe someone (tigger?) is working on one.
Hope this helps,
Regards,

bl00mie · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:

i'm using "hardened", but also "pic" and "pie" in the use flags. should i remove those?? other than that, i thiiiiink my setup is as you described...

Method · Retired Dev Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 20

this isn't a hardened specific problem, your environment isn't being updated to the new gcc after an install (for whatever reason)

do
#gcc-config 1
#source /etc/profile

and you should be fine, don't mess with pie/pic use flags. The one thing I'll note about sparc64 and hardened though, don't enable mprotect restrictions in the PaX configuration, it will hurt your performance badly
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bl00mie · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject:

that seems to have fixed it. hardened glibc just finished building and installing successfully... not that it _really_ matters at this point, but did i do something (or miss some instruction) that messed up the gcc-config stuff??

anyway, thanks to Method and Ferris for your help.

bl00mie · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

ack!!

glibc built just fine. but then when we move on to gcc, there was a syntax error in /usr/portage/eclass/toolchain.eclass