[uClibc] Toolchains thoroughly inadequate

[Rogelio M.Serrano Jr.]

did you chroot into the build environment?

On 2003-12-31 22:21:36 +0800 Mark Robson <slarty2 at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 	I've used uclibc for a while, and the old gcc wrappers always used 
> to work 
> well.
> 
> Ok, I've read the thread suggesting that the wrappers are no longer 
> the way 
> to go - that seems fine.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have been unable to get or obtain a working 
> toolchain (i386)
> 
> - The prebuilt i386 toolchain disc image: This seems ok, but when 
> compiling 
> anything more complex than Hello, World, the compiler crashes.
> 	Result: Unusable
> 
> To quote the web page
> 
> "*  You can build your own uClibc toolchain  using this to 
> automagically 
> download all the needed source code and compile everything for you."
> 
> Well, that's all very well, but there is a TOTAL ABSENCE of any form 
> of 
> documentation telling me what to do. So I guessed.
> 
> I built the toolchain successfully, and now have a "toolchain" 
> directory with 
> some stuff in, but when I use it in what I guess (naively) is the 
> appropriate 
> way (putting its bin directories in the path), it doesn't work
> 
> I can of course successfully compile "Hello, World", but more complex 
> things, 
> gives me compiler errors, at a guess due to still using glibc headers.
> 
> Thus, I'm totally stuck. The premade toolchain crashes and the one I 
> built, 
> doesn't work and doesn't come with instructions or ANY FORM of 
> DOCUMENTATION, 
> of ANY KIND (excepting the single sentence quoted above)
> 
> This all seems awfully difficult, and I'm currently actively 
> considering 
> reverting to an old uclibc that provides the wrappers
> 
> Mark
> 
>