Re: reverse_cross is supported in gcc-4.2

["Hector Oron" <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Hello,

It looks like cross builds are broken on this version, at least for me
on several arches. It fails to change to directory ../src/fixincludes/

do you experience the same issue?

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MIPS error log
----------------------
: # Install directories
rm -rf debian/tmp
mkdir -p debian/tmp/lib debian/tmp/usr debian/tmp/usr/lib/debug
: # Install everything
PATH=/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/bin:$PATH \
        \
         /usr/bin/make -C
/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/build \
           CFLAGS="-O2" \
           LDFLAGS="" \
           BOOT_CFLAGS="-O2" \
           DESTDIR=/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/debian/tmp
\
           infodir=/usr/share/info \
           mandir=/usr/share/man \
               install
make[2]: Entering directory
`/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/build'
make[3]: Entering directory
`/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/build'
/bin/sh ../src/mkinstalldirs
/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/debian/tmp/usr
/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/debian/tmp/usr
/bin/sh: line 3: cd: ./fixincludes: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install-fixincludes] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/build'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1/build'
make[1]: *** [stamps/07-install-stamp] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toolchain/trunk/mips/gcc-4.2-4.2-20070627-1'
make: *** [stamps/07-install-stamp] Error 2


2007/7/7, Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431086
>
> > One issue that arose during DebConf7 relates to an upstream behaviour of
> > gcc that is not working inside the debian packaging code.
> >
> > Emdebian has been building cross-compiler toolchains for some time but
> > in order to be able to build all Emdebian packages from source, we need
> > to be able to cross build gcc, not to provide a cross compiler but to
> > provide some core libraries - specifically libgcc1 and libstsdc++6-foo
> > - cross built for a different host.
> >
> > e.g.
> > Build=amd64|i386|powerpc
> > Host=arm
> > Target=arm
> >
> > compared to
> > build=amd64|i386|powerpc
> > host=amd64|i386|powerpc
> > target=arm
> > for a standard cross-compiler.
> >
> > As host==target this isn't a full canadian cross, more of a reverse
> > cross.
> >
> > A normal arm-linux-gnu-gcc etc. toolchain is used to build these
> > packages.
>
> The patch has now been included in gcc-4.2:
>
> Source: gcc-4.2
> Source-Version: 4.2-20070707-1
>
> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
> gcc-4.2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
>
> ...
>
> Changes:
>  gcc-4.2 (4.2-20070707-1) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    [Matthias Klose]
>    * Update to SVN 20070707 from the ubuntu/gcc-4_2-branch.
>      - debian/patches/libjava-soname.dpatch: Remove.
>      - debian/patches/disable-configure-run-check.dpatch: Update.
>    * Only suggest multilib packages on multilib architectures.
>    * Point ICE messages to the 4.2 docdir.
>    * Explicitely use fastjar to build gcj-4.1. Addresses: #416001.
>    * Configure with --enable-libgcj on m32r (Kazuhiro Inaoka).
>    * Include the hppa64 cross compiler on hppa snapshot builds.
>    * debian/patches/arm-libffi.dpatch: Update.
>    * libgcj-doc: Include the generated documentation.
>    * Fix building the libjava/classpath examples.
>    * Support reverse cross builds (Neil Williams). Closes: #431086.
>
> --
>
>
> Neil Williams
> =============
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Héctor Orón