Uclibc and blackfin

[Rob Landley]

On Monday 13 August 2007 2:36:12 am Koen Kooi wrote:
> Rob Landley schreef:
> > On Sunday 12 August 2007 4:20:01 pm Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> Rob Landley schreef:
> >>> If there are patches against mainline that add blackfin support to the
> >>> most recent release version of gcc, I'll happily test them.  But
> >>> starting from a separate tarball is uninteresting.
> >>
> >> Mainline gcc already support blackfin (from 4.0.x iirc), but not the
> >> extra funky command line options like -mfdpic or -mleaf-shared-id. I
> >> just succesfully built (well, OE built it) the uclibc fork with a pretty
> >> vanilla gcc 4.2.1 and the elf2flt wrapper.
> >
> > Cool!  Rummage, rummage...  Looks like the prefix is bfin, so the tuple
> > would be bfin-unknown-linux...  Nope, binutils dies saying ld doesn't
> > recognize it during the "make configure-host" stage.  (That's tuple works
> > for every other platform I've tried, but apparently blackfin is
> > "special".)
>
> I use bfin-angstrom-uclinux-uclibc as tuple (unknown works as well, but I
> like branding :))

I don't know about gcc 4.1.2, but bfin-unknown-linux didn't work with binutils 
2.17 and bfin-elf did...

I'm up to poking at uClibc, but have been distracted and should probably 
finish up m68k first.

Thanks,

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.