A little horror story on toolchain requirements

[Denis Vlasenko <vda at port dot imtp dot ilyichevsk dot odessa dot ua>]

I need to recompile everything to use only 386 opcode (no 486+).

I started from glibc 2.3 and it asked for gcc 3.2.

Okay, I did that and compiled gcc 3.2.

But then trying to compile glibc I've got:

/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(.data+0xb4c): multiple definition of `__ctype_toupper@GLIBC_2.0'
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__ctype32_toupper@GLIBC_2.2'
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(.data+0xb54): first defined here
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(.data+0xb50): multiple definition of `__ctype32_tolower@GLIBC_2.2'
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(.data+0xb40): multiple definition of `__ctype_b@GLIBC_2.0'
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(*IND*+0x0): multiple definition of `__ctype_tolower@GLIBC_2.0'
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(.data+0xb48): first defined here
/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/libc.so.6(.data+0xb44): multiple definition of `__ctype32_b@GLIBC_2.0'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/.obj/iconv/iconvconfig] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3/iconv'
make[1]: *** [iconv/others] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/.share/usr/src/glibc-2.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Oh, a bit of googling... Heh, I need newer binutils.

Oooookay, I downloaded 'em and now I've got:

make[3]: Entering directory `/.share/usr/src/binutils-2.13.90.0.6/.obj/binutils'
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2  -o size  size.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o ../bfd/libbfd.la ../libiberty/libiberty.a  -ldl
gcc -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -o .libs/size size.o bucomm.o version.o filemode.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.so -L/.share/usr/src/binutils-2.13.90.0.6/.obj/libiberty/pic -liberty ../libiberty/libiberty.a -ldl
/usr/sbin/ld: Dwarf Error: Invalid or unhandled FORM value: 14.
/usr/sbin/ld: Dwarf Error: Invalid or unhandled FORM value: 14.
/usr/sbin/ld: Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 117.
bucomm.o: In function `make_tempname':
bucomm.o(.text+0x3e2): the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [size] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/.share/usr/src/binutils-2.13.90.0.6/.obj/binutils'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/.share/usr/src/binutils-2.13.90.0.6/.obj/binutils'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/.share/usr/src/binutils-2.13.90.0.6/.obj/binutils'
make: *** [all-binutils] Error 2

Googling again... OUCH! I need newer binutils to be able
to compile newer binutils!!!   8-%

I hope compiling newer binutils with _old_ (3.0.3) gcc will work ;-)
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vda