[coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

[Marc Karasek]

Myles,

Disregard my feeble wanderings..  I was thinking about my attempt to 
move busybox to 1.10.1 and the problems I was seeing there. 

I think though the two are related.  Seems that uClibc 0.9.29 no longer 
supports the toolchain wrappers for -nostdlib and forcing a linking with 
native tools (gcc/binutils) and a compiled uClibc library.  This was 
pulled in 0.9.22 according to the uclibc FAQ.  Maybe it was just a one 
off that FC5 still worked.    What I see when I try 1.10.1 is it does 
not link properly and I get a 496 byte busybox file that says it is 
statically linked but is actually not even a valid exec file.  I am 
working on trying to get buildroot to build me a valid environment that 
I can then use to build busybox correctly under buildrom.  Either that 
or I pull the uclibc stuff from buildrom and see what glibc does in 
terms of size to the binary.

Marc

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Marc Karasek
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Myles Watson wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Marc Karasek <Marc.Karasek at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Myles,
>>
>> When you build the broken one:
>> 1) Is it a real exec file?  Or is the file like 496 bytes? What does file
>> busybox report?
>>     
>
> initrd-rootfs/bin/busybox is about 200K
>
> Did you mean a different file?  I think the error would come sooner if
> busybox were linked incorrectly.
>
>   
>> 2) What version of uclibc was the FC5 system using?
>>     
> The same as the FC6.  9.29.  I bumped it up for SimNow because 9.28
> didn't have a file necessary for x86_64.
>
>   
>> 3) can you do a make in the busybox directory outside of buildrom in
>> work/busybox/busybox-a.b.c/ and look at the output from this,  i.e. is the
>> busybox file have a correct size and is dynamic linked, etc..
>>     
> I don't think I have that problem.  Maybe you're talking about a different file?
>
> Myles
>
>   
>> Marc
>>
>>
>> *********************
>> Marc Karasek
>> MTS
>> Sun Microsystems
>> mailto:marc.karasek at sun.com
>> ph:770.360.6415
>> *********************
>>
>>
>>
>> Myles Watson wrote:
>>     
>>>       
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM [mailto:Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:22 PM
>>>> To: Myles Watson
>>>> Cc: coreboot at coreboot.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem
>>>>
>>>> Crap,  another compiler/tools problem.  I hate these..  what version of
>>>> gcc/binutils did you use under FC5?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> gcc 4.1.1 for x86_64 release 51.fc5
>>> binutils 2.16.91.0.6 for x86_64 release 5
>>>
>>> I wouldn't have upgraded, but I couldn't build a working version of qemu
>>> with those tools.  Now I have two broken systems :(
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Myles
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>
>