[uClibc] Problems building for AMD Alchemy processors.

[Ned Ludd]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 20:11 +0100, Charles Palmer wrote:
> Hi team
> 
> Has anyone suceesfully built a toolchain for these processors? If so, how? 
> (Many thanks in anticipation of your help...)
> 
> I have downloaded and built a buildroot package (host=x86 running Fedora 
> Core 3; target=AMD Au1200 - MIPS32, le) but the filesystem did not run and 
> neither did a kernel that I built with the new tools. I tried building a 
> simple hello world program, but that also fails on the target, with 
> "Segmentation fault" errors. Also, the ldd and readelf programs in 
> buildroot/toolchain_build_mipsel/uClibc/utils also give "Segmentation fault" 
> errors on the target, suggesting that they haven't been built properly 
> either.
> 
> I am a bit worried about the "MIPS R3000 big-endian" and "not found" 
> messages shown below. Here is what I did on my host:
> 
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ mipsel-linux-gcc hello.c -o hello-br
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ 
> ~/buildroot/toolchain_build_mipsel/uClibc/utils/readelf.host hello-br
> Type:           EXEC (Executable file)
> Machine:        MIPS R3000 big-endian
> Class:          ELF32
> Data:           2's complement, little endian
> Version:        1 (current)
> OS/ABI:         UNIX - System V
> ABI Version:    0
> Interpreter:    /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0
> Dependancies:
>         libgcc_s.so.1
>         libc.so.0
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ 
> ~/buildroot/toolchain_build_mipsel/uClibc/utils/ldd.host hello-br
>         libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00000000)
>         libc.so.0 => not found (0x00000000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00000000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ which mipsel-linux-gcc
> ~/buildroot/build_mipsel/staging_dir/bin/mipsel-linux-gcc
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$
> 
> BUILDING IT AGAINST A STATIC LIBRARY:
> 
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ mipsel-linux-gcc -static hello.c -o 
> hello-br-static
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ 
> ~/buildroot/toolchain_build_mipsel/uClibc/utils/ldd.host hello-br-static
>         not a dynamic executable
> [acutetech at localhost myprograms]$ 
> ~/buildroot/toolchain_build_mipsel/uClibc/utils/readelf.host hello-br-static
> Type:           EXEC (Executable file)
> Machine:        MIPS R3000 big-endian
> Class:          ELF32
> Data:           2's complement, little endian
> Version:        1 (current)
> OS/ABI:         UNIX - System V
> ABI Version:    0
> 


No idea about most of your mail but why are you trying to link with
glibc?

-- 
Ned Ludd <solar at gentoo.org>