Re: Static build of binutils 2.16.1

[Niklaus <niklaus at gmail dot com>]

On 3/27/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:07:51PM +0200, Pierre Wieser wrote:
> >
> > > That's surely not what's happening, have you looked at $(LINK) or at
> > > the actual commands being run?  $(LINK) includes $(LDFLAGS).
> >
> > Euhh. Yes, it's happen.
> > LINK variable seems good, as it includes '-static' flag, but the flag is not
> > reported on actual command line. For example :
>
> Yes, as someone else mentioned, you may need to use -all-static because
> libtool is involved.  This is silly, but not our fault.

Yes it (make LDFLAGS="-all-static") works only  with make configure-host
I tried to crosscompile after configure if i give make
LDFLAGS="-all-static" i get the following error. I tried give a
ac_cv_search_strerror=none required , then i got asprintf error. So
can you suggest a solution for that

nik@deb:/dev/shm/binbuild$ ~/binutils-2.16/configure
--prefix=/home/nik/buil                                             
d/ --target=powerpc-deb-linux --disable-nls --disable-shared
--enable-static
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... powerpc-deb-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... (cached) yes
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gnatbind... no
checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... (cached) no
checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... (cached) cmp
--ignore-initial=16                                               $$f1
$$f2
checking for correct version of gmp.h... no
checking for bison... (cached) bison
checking for bison... (cached) bison -y
checking for gm4... (cached) m4
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for flex... (cached) flex
checking for makeinfo... (cached) makeinfo
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no
checking for ar... (cached) ar
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no
checking for as... (cached) as
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no
checking for dlltool... (cached) dlltool
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld... no
checking for ld... (cached) ld
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no
checking for nm... (cached) nm
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no
checking for windres... (cached) windres
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... (cached) objcopy
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... no
checking for objdump... (cached) objdump
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-ar... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-as... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-dlltool... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-ld... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-nm... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-ranlib... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-windres... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking if symbolic links between directories work... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
nik@deb:/dev/shm/binbuild$ rm -rf *
nik@deb:/dev/shm/binbuild$ ~/binutils-2.16/configure
--prefix=/home/nik/buil                                             
d/ --target=powerpc-deb-linux --disable-nls --disable-shared
--enable-static
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... powerpc-deb-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gnatbind... no
checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... no
checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp
--ignore-initial=16 $$f1 $$f                                          
   2
checking for correct version of gmp.h... no
checking for bison... bison
checking for bison... bison -y
checking for gm4... no
checking for gnum4... no
checking for m4... m4
checking for flex... flex
checking for flex... flex
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... no
checking for ar... ar
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-as... no
checking for as... as
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-dlltool... no
checking for dlltool... dlltool
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ld... no
checking for ld... ld
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-nm... no
checking for nm... nm
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres... no
checking for windres... windres
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objdump... no
checking for objdump... objdump
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-ar... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-as... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-dlltool... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-ld... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-nm... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-ranlib... no
checking for powerpc-deb-linux-windres... no
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking if symbolic links between directories work... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
nik@deb:/dev/shm/binbuild$ make "LDFLAGS=-all-static"
mkdir -p -- ./libiberty
Configuring in libiberty
configure: creating cache ./config.cache
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for perl... perl
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar... ar
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... ranlib
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for sys/file.h... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/time.h... yes
checking for time.h... yes
checking for sys/resource.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/mman.h... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for alloca.h... yes
checking for sys/pstat.h... no
checking for sys/sysmp.h... no
checking for sys/sysinfo.h... yes
checking for machine/hal_sysinfo.h... no
checking for sys/table.h... no
checking for sys/sysctl.h... yes
checking for sys/systemcfg.h... no
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether errno must be declared... no
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for int... yes
checking size of int... 4
checking for uintptr_t... yes
checking for a 64-bit type... uint64_t
checking for pid_t... yes
checking for library containing strerror... configure: error: Link
tests are not                                               allowed
after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
make: *** [configure-libiberty] Error 1
nik@deb:/dev/shm/binbuild$



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