[lfs-support] build TAR fails miserably

Post by Michele Bucca
Hello everyone,
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.
I have problems compiling TAR for arm-linux-gnueabi (ARMv5), I think
that the problem is Glibc. I built the toolchains a lot of times using
different versions of GLIBC, GCC and BINUTILS using the LFS book as a
reference. the package versions are the one suggested by LFS so they
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration. Anyway, the
error that I get is this one
CC areadlink-with-size.o
In file included from
/home/michele/tmp/arm/install/arm-linux-gnueabi/include/stdlib.h:941:0,
from ./stdlib.h:36,
error: #error "Assumed value of MB_LEN_MAX wrong"
# error "Assumed value of MB_LEN_MAX wrong"
^~~~~
Makefile:1829: recipe for target 'areadlink-with-size.o' failed
make[4]: *** [areadlink-with-size.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/michele/tmp/tar-1.29/build/gnu'
Makefile:1854: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/michele/tmp/tar-1.29/build/gnu'
Makefile:1524: recipe for target 'all' failed
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/michele/tmp/tar-1.29/build/gnu'
Makefile:1338: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/michele/tmp/tar-1.29/build'
Makefile:1277: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
I'm using gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1)
as native compiler.
COLLECT_GCC=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/michele/x-tools/arm-linux-gnueabi/libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/8.2.0/lto-wrapper
Target: arm-linux-gnueabi
Configured with: ../configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi
--prefix=/home/michele/x-tools/arm-linux-gnueabi/
--enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-libsanitizer --disable-multilib
--disable-libmpx
Thread model: posix
gcc version 8.2.0 (GCC)
Cross Binutils 2.31.1
../configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --disable-nls --disable-multilib
and Glibc 2.28 compiled with: ../configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi
--prefix=/home/michele/tmp/arm/install/arm-linux-gnueabi
--enable-obsolete-rpc --disable-werror --disable-debug
--enable-add-ons=no libc_cv_c_cleanup=yes libc_cv_forced_unwind=yes
otherwise it would fail because of a warning being treated as an error
while compiling op-2.h
Can someone help me with this? The toolchain can cross-compile some
- binutils
- gmp
- mpfr
- mpc
- gcc
- glibc (disable werror)
- busybox
- xz
but it fails with this one. What can I do?
I've tried to use some toolchains provided by crosstool-ng and
buildroot and they work fine but mine doesn't. If I can't get a static
TAR to cross-compileI can basically give up on ARM. I need a Glibc
toolchain because it is the most complete and the de facto standard C
Library in the Linux World.
I've tried to post on CLFS but nobody game me a working solution. Only
one person tried to answer me and I thank him for that..How can I fix
that error?
sounds like some problem with this bit of code in
$PREFIX/$TARGET/include/bits/stdlib.h
__NTH (wctomb (char *__s, wchar_t __wchar))
{
/* We would have to include <limits.h> to get a definition of MB_LEN_MAX.
But this would only disturb the namespace. So we define our own
version here. */
#define __STDLIB_MB_LEN_MAX 16
#if defined MB_LEN_MAX && MB_LEN_MAX != __STDLIB_MB_LEN_MAX
# error "Assumed value of MB_LEN_MAX wrong"
#endif
if (__bos (__s) != (size_t) -1 && __STDLIB_MB_LEN_MAX > __bos (__s))
return __wctomb_chk (__s, __wchar, __bos (__s));
return __wctomb_alias (__s, __wchar);
}

Cannot answer directly to try to solve that issue but i assume its
about Raspberry. Maybe http://intestinate.com/pilfs/ can help, do you
know that site?

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Michele Bucca

2018-11-26 22:37:13 UTC

Il giorno lun 26 nov 2018 alle ore 20:26 Thomas Trepl

Post by Thomas Trepl

Cannot answer directly to try to solve that issue but i assume its
about Raspberry. Maybe http://intestinate.com/pilfs/ can help, do you
know that site?
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Ok, I've re-read the script that builds the toolchain and I figured
out that I skipped a step. My Cross compiler is a normal
cross-compiler without a full limits.h
Inside GCC source directory I had to run

cat gcc/limitx.h gcc/glimits.h gcc/limity.h > \
`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-fiòe-name)`/include-fixed/limits.h

The problem is now dixed

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Michele Bucca

2018-11-26 22:43:36 UTC

Il giorno lun 26 nov 2018 alle ore 23:37 Michele Bucca

Post by Michele Bucca
Il giorno lun 26 nov 2018 alle ore 20:26 Thomas Trepl

Post by Thomas Trepl

Cannot answer directly to try to solve that issue but i assume its
about Raspberry. Maybe http://intestinate.com/pilfs/ can help, do you
know that site?
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Ok, I've re-read the script that builds the toolchain and I figured
out that I skipped a step. My Cross compiler is a normal
cross-compiler without a full limits.h
Inside GCC source directory I had to run
cat gcc/limitx.h gcc/glimits.h gcc/limity.h > \
`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-fiòe-name)`/include-fixed/limits.h
The problem is now dixed

Sorry, I've mis-taped something, the correct command is:

cat gcc/limitx.h gcc/glimits.h gcc/limity.h > \
`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/include-fixed/limits.h

The problem is now fixed
. Michele

Post by Michele Bucca

Paul Rogers

2018-11-26 23:09:43 UTC

Post by Michele Bucca
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.

___8<...

Post by Michele Bucca
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration.

Michele, I don't have a solution your compilation issue, but I do have a meta-solution. Break away from beating your head against the wall here--it's an impediment to the solution. Do something nice for a while, until you can come back to this with a fresher perspective. It's rarely a waste of time. "Sleep on it" if possible.
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Michele Bucca

2018-11-27 19:02:11 UTC

Post by Michele Bucca
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.

___8<...

Post by Michele Bucca
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration.

Michele, I don't have a solution your compilation issue, but I do have a
meta-solution. Break away from beating your head against the wall
here--it's an impediment to the solution. Do something nice for a while,
until you can come back to this with a fresher perspective. It's rarely a
waste of time. "Sleep on it" if possible.

I've already solved my problem, however I would like to thank you for your
interest. It's the first time that someone gives me an advice like this.
Thanks for your interest for my self-care.

Cheers

- Michele
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2018-11-28 12:22:16 UTC

Post by Michele Bucca
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.

___8<...

Post by Michele Bucca
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration.

Would you care to explain how?
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Michele Bucca

2018-11-28 13:24:45 UTC

Il giorno mer 28 nov 2018 alle ore 13:22 Christer Solskogen

Post by Michele Bucca
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.

___8<...

Post by Michele Bucca
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration.

Would you care to explain how?

I've said it before but I'll write it again so you won't have to look for it:

My cross-compiler lacked of a complete limits.h header. To generate
it, inside GCC's source directory, I had to run

cat gcc/limitx.h gcc/glimits.h gcc/limity.h > \
`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-fiòe-name)`/include-fixed/limits.h

where $LFS_TGT is the TARGET of your cross-compiler, eg: arm-linux-gnueabi

These instructions are also reported on the LFS book [1]

[1] http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/gcc-pass2.html

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Michele Bucca

2018-11-28 13:26:30 UTC

Il giorno mer 28 nov 2018 alle ore 14:24 Michele Bucca

Post by Michele Bucca
Il giorno mer 28 nov 2018 alle ore 13:22 Christer Solskogen

Post by Michele Bucca
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.

___8<...

Post by Michele Bucca
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration.

Would you care to explain how?

My cross-compiler lacked of a complete limits.h header. To generate
it, inside GCC's source directory, I had to run
cat gcc/limitx.h gcc/glimits.h gcc/limity.h > \
`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-fiòe-name)`/include-fixed/limits.h
where $LFS_TGT is the TARGET of your cross-compiler, eg: arm-linux-gnueabi
These instructions are also reported on the LFS book [1]
[1] http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/gcc-pass2.html

Whoops! There's a typo in the command, here's the correct one:

cat gcc/limitx.h gcc/glimits.h gcc/limity.h > \
`dirname $($LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name)`/include-fixed/limits.h

Cheers
- Michele Bucca

Post by Michele Bucca

Christer Solskogen

2018-11-29 14:36:27 UTC

Post by Michele Bucca
Il giorno mer 28 nov 2018 alle ore 14:24 Michele Bucca

Post by Michele Bucca
Il giorno mer 28 nov 2018 alle ore 13:22 Christer Solskogen

Post by Michele Bucca
I'm sorry to bother you with a question like this but I have no other
place to ask, nobody has answered to this.

___8<...

Post by Michele Bucca
SHOULD be compatible. I'm so tired and in frustration.

Would you care to explain how?

Darn it. I didn't see that. Sorry :(
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Pierre Labastie

2018-11-28 13:52:57 UTC