On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:09:05AM +0100, Michael Weber wrote: > Hi there! > > In my quest to bootstrap a Debian NetBSD/Alpha system, I'm trying to > compile the Debian binutils/gcc packages on NetBSD/Alpha. > > Basically I started with a chroot of the netbsd system, and then > produced the basic packages so that i now can do > # dpkg-source -x foo.dsc > # cd foo-<version> > # dpkg-buildpackage -sa -us -uc > # debi > > to build and install package 'foo' (works most of the time with little > to no fiddling now). I have ~30 binary packages so far. > > However, I'm still building with the NetBSD gcc/binutils/libc, and I > figured that now would be a good time to switch to a Debian "native" > compiler. =) > > > To accomplish this, I have binutils configured with > --target=alpha-netbsd --prefix=/some/path > > and compiled with the netbsd-gcc (egcs-1.1.2), which succeeded so far. > > Now, if I compile a simple C program with > # netbsd-gcc -c foo.c > and then link it statically with the _new_ binutils and the _original_ > netbsd libc, libgcc and crt*.o stuff, it works out. > > However, if I try to link it dynamically using the original netbsd > stuff (in particular ld.elf_so), it segfaults and running it in the > debugger gets gdb severely confused. So I guess I'm doing something > really wrong here. > > I'm about to compile a bootstrap gcc (same configure options as > binutils plus --with-gnu-* options) that'll use my new binutils, and > then have a try at libc with it (in order to produce a new set of > crt*.o), but this is more or less fishing in muddy water. > > Can anybody shed some light on how the i386 gcc/binutils packages were > built?
I'm still waiting on the patches from the NetBSD i386 chroot creator that he used for GCC, before I try to build one inside the tarball. Let me know if you find something that works; I'd love to get a full suite of the GCC tools into the i386 port as well (gdb does not currently exist inside...) > Cheers, > Michael > BTW: is the netbsd libc already packaged as deb source? how about the > netbsd utils., include files etc.? Haven't seen it yet.... just the chroot. Part of what I'm waiting on. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
