Bootstrapping cross toolchains using glibc is an unduly complicated process involving multiple GCC builds and sometimes multiple glibc builds or glibc header installs.
Something like the ideal bootstrap process is described at <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-03/msg00960.html>. I put some changes into glibc (for 2.17) to get closer to this process (in particular, stopping the glibc build from depending on GCC's libgcc_s or libgcc_eh). This means it is now possible to build glibc using an initial static-only GCC build with inhibit_libc defined for target library builds. Such a glibc built with such an initial GCC, however, isn't quite identical to the glibc you get if you then build them full GCC against the first glibc, then rebuild glibc. It's desirable that it really is identical so that a second glibc build is completely redundant. One cause of differences is that when crtstuff.c is built in the first inhibit_libc GCC build, USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME does not get defined - and so USE_EH_FRAME_REGISTRY is defined, affecting the crt*.o contents (which then get linked into various glibc shared libraries). The code in crtstuff.c has no actual dependence on link.h, so no need for it to be conditional on inhibit_libc at all. Making USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME not depend on inhibit_libc, for glibc-using toolchains, does cause an inconsistency with unwind-dw2-fde-dip.c where the link.h contents are used so removing the inhibit_libc dependency is harder. However, I think this inconsistency is OK, given that inhibit_libc builds for glibc targets are only to be expected to be useful for bootstrapping, not as the final toolchain used once glibc has been built (for that, you'll want libgcc_s and libgcc_eh built against the glibc libraries and headers). This patch accordingly adds another case for defining USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME in crtstuff.c: all existing cases are kept as they are, but this new one is added as well. The logic of defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(__gnu_linux__) || defined(__GNU__) is that (a) while __GLIBC__ is usually defined in library headers (which we may not have at this point), kfreebsd-gnu, knetbsd-gnu and kopensolaris-gnu define it in GCC; (b) __gnu_linux__ covers exactly those cases with the Linux kernel where glibc is in use and (c) __GNU__ covers the GNU Hurd, the remaining case of use of glibc. Tested with cross to arm-none-linux-gnueabi that this does indeed fix various cases where previously rebuilding glibc with the second GCC as part of a bootstrap process would result in differences from the first-built glibc, and bootstrapped with no regressions on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu as a sanity check. OK to commit? With this patch, all the glibc libraries proper - libraries against which one might link, such as libc.so.6 and libm.so.6 - have identical disassembly for both builds, whereas they did not all have identical disassembly before. There are, however, still differences in miscellaneous .so files used by glibc and programs installed by glibc, such as libmemusage.so. In that case, at least some differences result from functions in libgcc.a being hidden in the second GCC build but not the first static-only build. In my view, the logic for giving libgcc functions hidden visibility should be the same whether or not a shared libgcc is being built. (This does mean that in the static-only case, objects from .S files would need the _s.o versions built for use in generating the list of symbols to hide.) Comments? 2012-08-17 Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> * crtstuff.c (USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME): Define for systems using glibc even if inhibit_libc. Index: libgcc/crtstuff.c =================================================================== --- libgcc/crtstuff.c (revision 190491) +++ libgcc/crtstuff.c (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /* Specialized bits of code needed to support construction and destruction of file-scope objects in C++ code. Copyright (C) 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 - 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 + 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Ron Guilmette (r...@monkeys.com). @@ -113,6 +113,19 @@ # define USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME # endif #endif + +#if defined(OBJECT_FORMAT_ELF) \ + && !defined(OBJECT_FORMAT_FLAT) \ + && defined(HAVE_LD_EH_FRAME_HDR) \ + && !defined(CRTSTUFFT_O) \ + && (defined(__GLIBC__) || defined(__gnu_linux__) || defined(__GNU__)) +/* On systems using glibc, an inhibit_libc build of libgcc is only + part of a bootstrap process. Build the same crt*.o as would be + built with headers present, so that it is not necessary to build + glibc more than once for the bootstrap to converge. */ +# define USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME +#endif + #if defined(EH_FRAME_SECTION_NAME) && !defined(USE_PT_GNU_EH_FRAME) # define USE_EH_FRAME_REGISTRY #endif -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
