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Re: Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Jay Foster <jay at systech dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:10:23 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
- References: <74C9525D67A5FF4791614FDB06593BB10429A410@mail.systech.com>
Jay Foster wrote:
> The existing tools are built agains TCL/TK 8.3 which are not on the new
> system.
> I tried --host=i686-linux-gnu, and it now no longer complains about the
> x86_64 stuff. But as I suspected, it now can't find the TCL/TK
> (tclConfig.sh/tkConfig.sh). Did these files get removed in version 8.4?
I think you need to install the TK development packages.
You can probably also just fake it
# ln -s /usr/lib/libtcl8.{4,3}.so
# ln -s /usr/lib/libtk8.{4,3}.so
Alternatively, I have RPM packages built on Fedora 7 I could give you.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:27 AM
> To: Jay Foster
> Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
>
>
> Jay Foster wrote:
>> Yes, but there seems to be some 'sub-configures' that aren't getting the
>> --host= argument passed to them, and do the guess host thing, which
> guesses
>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu again, which fails.
>>
>> I'm also concerned that even if I could get past this, it would fail
> finding
>> TCL and TK, since there doesn't seem to be a tclConfig.sh or tkConfig.sh
>> file anywhere on the installation. Yes, I did install TCL and TK (version
>> 8.4).
>
> I don't have an x86_64 system installed here (I run simple x86 kernel
> on my AMD/64 boxes), so I can't test this.
>
> Is there something in particular you need to [re]build the host tools for?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:08 AM
>> To: Jay Foster
>> Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
>> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Host Tools Build Problem - Fedora 8
>>
>>
>> Jay Foster wrote:
>>> I'm trying to build the host tools (ecosconfig, et al) on a new install
> of
>>> Fedora 8 (x86_64). I am getting the following error when running
>> configure:
>>> checking build system type... Invalid configuration
>>> `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized.
>>>
>>> I tried adding --host=x86_64-linux-gnu to the configure options, but it
>>> seems that the configure script isn't passing this down to the
>>> sub-configures, and I end up with the same error further on. I'm sure
>>> someone has built these tools on a x86_64 linux architecture that could
>>> provide me with the solution to this problem.
>> I'd be a little surprised if someone had :-)
>>
>> Did you try forcing the host to be just x86-linux-gnu? The
>> process will probably work just as well with that setting.
>>
>
>
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