Re: tried gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6 -- mips.dat

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Not sure why you took the thread off the list, but...

Philip Rakity wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I am just playing -- curious what works and what does not.
>
> is the fundamental problem that the 
> is not 
> GCC_CORE_DIR=gcc-4.1.0
> but rather
> GCC_CORE_DIR=gcc-3.3.6

I have never studied nor used crosstool (probably a mistake on my part), 
but I have to ask myself why there appears to be (at least in the name 
of these variables) a mixing of gcc-3.3.6 and 4.1.

The symptoms you are seeing are indicitive of using a gcc 3.3 vintage 
compiler with binutils 2.16.1

> the gcc-4.1.0-blic-2.3.6.dat file is pasted below
>
> BINUTILS_DIR=binutils-2.16.1
> GCC_CORE_DIR=gcc-3.3.6
> GCC_DIR=gcc-4.1.0
> GLIBC_DIR=glibc-2.3.6
> LINUX_DIR=linux-2.6.15.4
> LINUX_SANITIZED_HEADER_DIR=linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0
> GLIBCTHREADS_FILENAME=glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.6
> GDB_DIR=gdb-6.4
>
>
> regards,
>
> Philip
>
> --- David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/5/06, Philip Rakity <prakity@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > i tried using DawinPorts make (version 3.80) -- same failure as
> >
> > make
> >
> > > > with macintosh)
> > > > I then checked out make from the cvs tree and used that instead
> > > > Now failure is different
> > > > ...
> >
> > > /Volumes/unix/crosstool-0.42/build/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/gcc-3.3.6/gcc/libgcc2.c
> > >
> > > > -fexceptions -fnon-call-exceptions -o libgcc/./_divdi3.o
> > > > /var/tmp//cchbECRV.s: Assembler messages:
> > > > /var/tmp//cchbECRV.s:956: Error: operation combines symbols in
> > > > different segments
> > > > make[2]: *** [libgcc/./_divdi3.o] Error 1
> > > > make[2]: Leaving directory
> >
> > > `/Volumes/unix/crosstool-0.42/build/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/build-gcc-core/gcc'
> > >
> > > > make[1]: *** [libgcc.a] Error 2
> > > > make[1]: Leaving directory
> >
> > > `/Volumes/unix/crosstool-0.42/build/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-4.1.0-glibc-2.3.6/build-gcc-core/gcc'
> > >
> > > > make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2
> > >
> > >
> > > (Please trim your logs a bit more (like I did above).
> > > Also please do a google search for the error message before
> >
> > posting.)
> >
> > > I think this error might have been discussed here:
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2005-09/msg00181.html
> > >
> > > Does that help?
> >
> > I have not followed the entire thread, but know that the 'Error: 
> > operation combines symbols in different segments' message is caused
> > by a 
> > change in mips binutils around the 2.15 version time frame.  Before
> > the 
> > change you could do math on symbols in different sections, after the 
> > change you could not.
> >
> > Versions of GCC released before the change (perhaps about 3.4.3 and 
> > 3.3.5) try to calculate the offset between symbols in different
> > segments 
> > (this happens in .eh_frame and .debug_frame sections) resulting in
> > the 
> > error you are seeing.
> >
> > The solution is to use GCC and Binutils of a compatible vintage. Old 
> > GCCs only work with old Binutils.  New GCCs work with old and new
> > Binutils.
> >
> > Now how to make use of this knowledge in relation to crosstool, I
> > have 
> > no idea.  But I am fairly sure that that is what is happening.
> >
> > David Daney.
>
>
>
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