On 5/23/13 3:46 AM, Luo Zhenhua-B19537 wrote:
Hi all,

I am trying the multilib feature of Yocto, and I want to make sure if below 
scenarios are supported, who can help to clarify? Thanks in advance.

For standalone toolchain built by "bitbake meta-toolchain"
1. Can the same gcc binary build both 32b and 64b applications or two different 
gcc binaries(one is for 32b, the other is for 64b) are required?

As far as I know, you can create a multilib SDK, but you will need multilib gcc binaries. We don't yet have singular gcc with multilib cflag options available. (At Wind River we use a prebuilt binary toolchain that does allow this single binary/multilib target behavior. Other then that we are using the standard SDK support and it is working for us.)

For gcc with multilib support running on target board
1. Can the same gcc binary build both 32b and 64b applications or two different 
gcc binaries(one is for 32b, the other is for 64b) are required?

As far as I'm aware the same issue above holds true here. You still need multiple compiler binaries, one for each multilib. (Khem Raj would know if this is still true however.)

It was discussed a while back that we really want to follow the single binary, multilib target model -- but I don't know where that is from a development perspective.

2. Can both 32b and 64b application be executed in the same rootfs image with 
multilib support?

Yes. As long as the multilib support is configured properly (i.e. different baselib for each tune) it works properly today. I've been building 1.4 (and master) recently for x86/x86_64 systems with multilib support and as far as I can tell it is working correctly.

On Power there have been some issues reported in the past with the prelinker and PPC64 binaries. But other then that, it should be working fine.

BTW, may I know how the default value of LIBRARY_PATH is set? I experienced 
following error when I use gcc(32bit rootfs with multilib support) to do 64b 
build, I find the linker search libraries in /usr/lib and /lib instead of 
/usr/lib64 and /lib64.

root@p5020ds:~# gcc -m64 my_test.c -o my_test
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible 
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/libgcc.a
 when searching for -lgcc
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/libgcc.a when searching 
for -lgcc
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
cannot find -lgcc
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible /lib/../lib/libgcc_s.so.1 when searching for libgcc_s.so.1
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible //lib/libgcc_s.so.1 when searching for libgcc_s.so.1
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
cannot find libgcc_s.so.1
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible 
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/libgcc.a
 when searching for libgcc.a
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/libgcc.a when searching 
for libgcc.a
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-poky-linux/4.7.2/../../../../powerpc-poky-linux/bin/ld: 
cannot find libgcc.a

Ya, this is running the 'wrong' toolchain. From the errors it appears to me that it's the 32-bit gcc, attempting to compile for 64-bit. There is a command that will tell you what architectures gcc was built to support, but unfortunately I don't remember it offhand.

At one point we had installed the full canonical name of the gcc binary, so "powerpc-poky-linux-gcc" would be 32-bit, and "powerpc64-poky-linux-gcc" would be the 64-bit version. I don't know if that is still true however.

--Mark

collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
root@p5020ds:~# cat my_test.c
int main()
{
     int a=0;

     return a;
}


Best Regards,

Zhenhua

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