[gentoo-mips] Still Problems with compiling the kernel

[gentoo-mips] Still Problems with compiling the kernel

[Mathias W.]

Hi,
As I mentioned previously  without getting an answer (http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00589.xml) I'm still 
having problems with compiling the kernel:

   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
lib/lib.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

I've been always told to run binutils-config which I've done now a thousand times. I tried to switch compilers several 
times. I even emerged an old version of binutils (with USE="multislot") to switch to (and back) - nothing helped.
Has anybody an idea what to try before I'm going to setup the system again from scratch?

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Re: [gentoo-mips] Still Problems with compiling the kernel

[Kumba]

Mathias W. wrote:
> Hi,
> As I mentioned previously  without getting an answer 
> (http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00589.xml) I'm still having 
> problems with compiling the kernel:
> 
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> lib/lib.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to 
> add one
> make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> 
> I've been always told to run binutils-config which I've done now a 
> thousand times. I tried to switch compilers several times. I even 
> emerged an old version of binutils (with USE="multislot") to switch to 
> (and back) - nothing helped.
> Has anybody an idea what to try before I'm going to setup the system 
> again from scratch?

I did hit the ldscripts error, which needed a fix in binutils-config.  But this 
ranlib-based one, I haven't hit in the last few times I've run catalyst to build 
newer livecds.  All I can say, is use crossdev to completely remove all traces 
of cross-compilers, then follow behind it in /usr and remove any left overs that 
might be remaining (usually in /usr/${CHOST}/*).  Then, remove all your kernel 
trees.

Remerge everything, using gcc-4.1.2 and binutils-2.17, and cross fingers.  Make 
sure you're running "make vmlinux" for 64bit targets (IP28, IP27, IP30) or 
vmlinux.32 for quasi-64bit targets (IP22, IP32).  Also make sure you have the 
latest crossdev too.

I can only think that this is residual goop leftover, possibly form that 
ldscripts bug.  Since catalyst stages nuke everything on a rebuild, when the 
ldscripts bug was fixed, I may've just skipped over this issue by the nuking. 
Cause else, this would be a kernel build failure, and I should've ran into it by 
now.

As a last afterthought, make sure mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-ranlib exists and can 
be ran.


--Kumba

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Re: [gentoo-mips] Still Problems with compiling the kernel

[Mathias W.]

Kumba schrieb:

> I did hit the ldscripts error, which needed a fix in binutils-config.  
> But this ranlib-based one, I haven't hit in the last few times I've run 
> catalyst to build newer livecds.  All I can say, is use crossdev to 
> completely remove all traces of cross-compilers, then follow behind it 
> in /usr and remove any left overs that might be remaining (usually in 
> /usr/${CHOST}/*).  Then, remove all your kernel trees.

I did this and hopefully removed everything which looked like mips64.

> Remerge everything, using gcc-4.1.2 and binutils-2.17, and cross 
> fingers.  Make sure you're running "make vmlinux" for 64bit targets 
> (IP28, IP27, IP30) or vmlinux.32 for quasi-64bit targets (IP22, IP32).  
> Also make sure you have the latest crossdev too.

Now I emerged gcc-4.1.2 but then kgcc64-4.1.2 fails during compile:

rm -f include/limits.h
cp xlimits.h include/limits.h
cp /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/kgcc64-4.1.2/work/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/unwind-generic.h include/unwind.h
chmod a+r include/limits.h
rm -f include/README
cp /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/kgcc64-4.1.2/work/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/../fixincludes/README-fixinc include/README
chmod a+r include/README
echo timestamp > stmp-int-hdrs
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/bin/mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-as', needed by `stamp-as'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/kgcc64-4.1.2/work/build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/kgcc64-4.1.2/work/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/kgcc64-4.1.2 failed.
Call stack:
   ebuild.sh, line 1615:   Called dyn_compile
   ebuild.sh, line 972:   Called qa_call 'src_compile'
   ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_compile
   ebuild.sh, line 1305:   Called toolchain_src_compile
   toolchain.eclass, line 26:   Called gcc_src_compile
   toolchain.eclass, line 1541:   Called gcc_do_make
   toolchain.eclass, line 1415:   Called die

!!! emake failed with all
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/kgcc64-4.1.2/temp/build.log'.

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Now I'm not sure if this may be in relation to the cleaning because I had kgcc64-4.1.1 before.
(I'm pretty sure that I did too much cleaning because kgcc64-4.1.1 shows the same error now)

I think I rebuild this machine from Scratch: is there a newer stage3 available than this: stage3-mips4-2006.0.tar.bz2 ?

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Re: [gentoo-mips] Still Problems with compiling the kernel

[J. Scott Kasten]

Ouch!  When I do ebuilds, I allways use the -b to make binary packages for 
quick reinstall or duplication on another machine.  Perhaps you would like 
some of my packages related to base and compiler???

-Scott-

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Mathias W. wrote:

> Now I'm not sure if this may be in relation to the cleaning because I had 
> kgcc64-4.1.1 before.
> (I'm pretty sure that I did too much cleaning because kgcc64-4.1.1 shows the 
> same error now)
>
> I think I rebuild this machine from Scratch: is there a newer stage3 
> available than this: stage3-mips4-2006.0.tar.bz2 ?
>
> -- 
> Mathias Weigt
>
>
>
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> gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
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