Current status and further development

[Olivier Houchard]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:09:30AM +0800, Jia-Shiun Li wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:46:02 +0100, Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd at ci0.org> wrote:
> > It seems it my fault, partially. Apparently specifying DESTDIR for any other
> > target than install is not a good idea (although some .depend files looks
> > right, go figure).
> > So instead you have to do
> > make TARGET_ARCH=arm TOOLS_PREFIX=/usr/cross depend all
> > make TARGET_ARCH=arm TOOLS_PREFIX=/usr/cross DESTDIR=/usr/cross install
> 
> I tried again, despite some directories under /usr/cross missing
> during installation, the second step to build binutils still failed
> somewhere, so I decided to do some lary try. :)
> 
> I checked /usr/src/Makefile to see how it works to crossbuild for
> other platform, and executed
>   make -DNOCLEAN buildworld TARGET_ARCH=arm TARGET=arm __MAKE_CONF=/dev/null
> and it failed at the same place. Looks like that as.h was included
> twice. But buildworld will work for other platforms, at least I tried
> IA64.
> 

Wild guess : didn't you try to re-apply the patch after cvsup-ing ? I remember
getting hit by that before, because instead of re-creating the files, patch will
happen the diffs to the existing files, effectively duplicating it.
There may be a patch option to tell it not to create files that already exists,
but I don't know it. When I have to re-apply the patches I usually remove
src/gnu, src/contrib/gcc and src/contrib/binutils. 

> BTW why is there two binutils & cc, under gnu/ and contrib/ ? i
> thought they were the same?
> 

contrib/ contains the bits from FSF almost verbatim.
gnu/ contains our build bits.

Cheers,

Olivier