[gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on Asus WL-HDD2.5 (mips32)

[gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on Asus WL-HDD2.5 (mips32)

[Nicolas MASSÉ]

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Hello,

A couple of months ago, I bought a wireless box (Asus WL-HDD2.5) with a linux 
firmware, a description is available at [1].

The first thing that I did, was to flash the firmware with openwrt, see [2]. 
Then, I wanted to install a gentoo on it so I started with a mips stage 3, 
and it worked fine.

Since the box has a few bogomips (less than 100), I tried to crosscompile 
using portage, but I often have problems with the ./configure scripts (it 
cannot execute test programs while crosscompiling. Sometimes the script makes 
a bad guess and it doesn't compile). 

I successfully compiled hdparm, but it segfault when launched on the target. 
So I decided to compile gdb, but the compilation ends with :

checking for main in -lm... yes
checking for wctype... yes
checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
checking for library containing socketpair... none required
checking for library containing waddstr... no
checking for library containing tgetent... no
configure: error: no termcap library found
make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/gdb-6.4-r2/work/gdb-6.4'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/gdb-6.4-r2 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1894:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 941:   Called src_compile



The last configure script (gdb has several ./configure) was :

configure: running /bin/sh '../.././sim/igen/configure' --prefix=/usr  
'--cache-file=./config.cache' '--build=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'--host=mipsel-default-linux-uclibc' '--target=mipsel-default-linux-uclibc' 
'--with-stabs' '--prefix=/usr' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' 
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--sysconfdir=/etc' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--disable-werror' '--disable-nls' 
'--program-transform-name=s,y,y,' '--srcdir=.././sim' 
'CC=mipsel-default-linux-uclibc-gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe ' 
'CPPFLAGS=-I/target/usr/include' 'LDFLAGS=' 'build_alias=i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
'host_alias=mipsel-default-linux-uclibc' 
'target_alias=mipsel-default-linux-uclibc' --cache-file=.././config.cache 
--srcdir=../.././sim/igen


But on other ./configure from gdb I can see :

checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking which library has the termcap functions... using gnutermcap



I attached the interresting lines of the config.log.
I am a bit lost, does anyone have an idea ?


Best regards,

Nicolas MASSE

[1] http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=12&l2=44&l3=0&model=460&modelmenu=1
[2] http://openwrt.org/


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configure:8289: mipsel-default-linux-uclibc-gcc -o conftest -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -I/target/usr/include  conftest.c -ltermcap  -lm  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/3.4.5/../../../../mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot find -ltermcap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:8289: mipsel-default-linux-uclibc-gcc -o conftest -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -I/target/usr/include  conftest.c -ltinfo  -lm  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/3.4.5/../../../../mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot find -ltinfo
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:8289: mipsel-default-linux-uclibc-gcc -o conftest -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -I/target/usr/include  conftest.c -lcurses  -lm  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/3.4.5/../../../../mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:8289: mipsel-default-linux-uclibc-gcc -o conftest -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -I/target/usr/include  conftest.c -lncurses  -lm  >&5
/usr/lib/gcc/mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/3.4.5/../../../../mipsel-default-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

configure:8323: result: no
configure:8332: error: no termcap library found

Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo on Asus WL-HDD2.5 (mips32)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:50, Nicolas MASSÉ wrote:
> Since the box has a few bogomips (less than 100), I tried to crosscompile
> using portage, but I often have problems with the ./configure scripts (it
> cannot execute test programs while crosscompiling. Sometimes the script
> makes a bad guess and it doesn't compile).

usually this is a bug in the configure script ... you should prob file a bug 
about the package

> I successfully compiled hdparm, but it segfault when launched on the
> target. So I decided to compile gdb, but the compilation ends with :

you need to have ncurses setup for the cross-compiler to find it

if you cross-compile ncurses and then copy the headers/libs 
to /usr/$CTARGET/{lib,include}, that should be enough
-mike

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