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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:32 pm    Post subject: port gentoo to new board: ppc-crossdev has issues Reply with quote

hi,
i've bought a board equipped with a mipsR4000 little endian
i'm experienced with the gentoo-mips (i run it on sgi octane), and i know it is for big-endian cpus

this board is supported by debian, and the cpu has the mmu, so a 2.4 kernel is not a problem
the real problem is: how to port all the stages (1,2,3) to this board ?

i'd like to run gentoo on this board, i'd like to have gcc aboard
i don't like debian, and i don't like to have no gcc&C running on the board


so the question is: how to port gentoo to a new board ?
how to make stage3 ?

is there documentation ?

regards


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If there's no stage3 build, you will need to start from scratch with a stage1.

Probably the best way to start is install portage for a host system (even better if already use gentoo on another system, don't forget cross compile builds), and use portage to build a stage1 for the system in a chroot. Then copy it over to the machine for boot.

As long as you can build a kernel for it... I wish my DECstation 3100 could run Linux (and support console, disk, etc.)
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

first step: have the crossdev toolchain

Code:

#Supported Architectures:
#   - mips / mipsel / mips64 / mips64el
#Supported C Libraries:
#   - glibc (gnu)
#   - klibc       [prob wont work]
#   - newlib      [bare metal/no operating system]
#   - uclibc      [not all arches are ported]


so

Code:
crossdev --stable --target mipsel-linux-uclibc


should compile the crosscompiler&clib (binutils,gcc,uclibc)
unfortunately it fails with errors at the uclibc stage

i'm running crossdev on a ppc machine

Quote:

make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/cross/mipsel-linux-uclibc/portage/cross-mipsel-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.27-r1/work/uClibc-0.9.27/ldso'
echo "const char *_dl_progname=\""ld-uClibc.so.0"\";" \
> include/dl-progname.h
echo "#include \"mips/elfinterp.c\"" \
>> include/dl-progname.h
ln -fs ../../include/elf.h include/
ln -fs ../ldso/mips/dl-startup.h include/
ln -fs ../ldso/mips/dl-syscalls.h include/
ln -fs ../ldso/mips/dl-sysdep.h include/
make -C ldso;
make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/cross/mipsel-linux-uclibc/portage/cross-mipsel-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.27-r1/work/uClibc-0.9.27/ldso/ldso'
mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-stack-protector -Os -mno-split-addresses -mips1 -fPIC -DUCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX=\"/\" -fno-builtin -nostdinc -D_LIBC -I../../ldso/include -I. -I../../include -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-linux-uclibc/4.1.1/include -D__SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG__ -I../libdl -c mips/resolve.S -o mips/resolve.o
true -Since_we_are_debugging -x -R .note -R .comment mips/resolve.o
mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-stack-protector -Os -mno-split-addresses -mips1 -fPIC -DUCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX=\"/\" -fno-builtin -nostdinc -D_LIBC -I../../ldso/include -I. -I../../include -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-linux-uclibc/4.1.1/include -D__SUPPORT_LD_DEBUG__ -I../libdl -c ldso.c -o ldso.o
ldso.c:74: error: static declaration of '_dl_malloc_addr' follows non-static declaration
../../ldso/include/ldso.h:45: error: previous declaration of '_dl_malloc_addr' was here
ldso.c:75: error: static declaration of '_dl_mmap_zero' follows non-static declaration
../../ldso/include/ldso.h:46: error: previous declaration of '_dl_mmap_zero' was here
In file included from ldso.c:935:
dl-hash.c: In function '_dl_find_hash':
dl-hash.c:150: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of '_dl_elf_hash' differ in signedness
make[2]: *** [ldso.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/cross/mipsel-linux-uclibc/portage/cross-mipsel-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.27-r1/work/uClibc-0.9.27/ldso/ldso'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/cross/mipsel-linux-uclibc/portage/cross-mipsel-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.27-r1/work/uClibc-0.9.27/ldso'
make: *** [_dir_ldso] Error 2

!!! ERROR: cross-mipsel-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.27-r1 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
environment, line 3413: Called src_compile
uclibc-0.9.27-r1.ebuild, line 326: Called die

!!! could not make
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/cross/mipsel-linux-uclibc/portage/cross-mipsel-linux-uclibc/uclibc-0.9.27-r1/temp/build.log'.

!!! This ebuild is from an overlay: '/usr/local/portage'




ummm
Quote:
ldso.c:74: error: static declaration of '_dl_malloc_addr' follows non-static declaration
../../ldso/include/ldso.h:45: error: previous declaration of '_dl_malloc_addr' was here
ldso.c:75: error: static declaration of '_dl_mmap_zero' follows non-static declaration
../../ldso/include/ldso.h:46: error: previous declaration of '_dl_mmap_zero' was here


what does it mean ?
"error: static declaration of '_dl_mmap_zero' follows non-static declaration"

any idea ?
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:

crossdev --stable --target mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu


gcc-stage1 fails cause unrecognized option -EL somewhere
understanding what this log error messaged means
-EL tells the compiler to build in little-endian mode
Not sure if that's implemented for PowerPC (which is big-endian)
It sounds like a flag that should be used with the cross-compiler being built, got passed to the host's compiler.
Thus the host compiler rightfully said WTF?! and chucked a wobbly, killing the build.

clearly there is a bug in the build system here
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

about uclibc this is causing issues on host=bigendian

uclibc.ebuild wrote:

uclibc_endian() {
# XXX: this wont work for a toolchain which is bi-endian, but we
# dont have any such thing at the moment, so not a big deal
touch "${T}"/endian.s
$(tc-getAS) "${T}"/endian.s -o "${T}"/endian.o
case $(file "${T}"/endian.o) in
*" MSB "*) echo "big";;
*" LSB "*) echo "little";;
*) echo "NFC";;
esac
rm -f "${T}"/endian.{s,o}
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

useful link http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-HOWTO
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