Re: fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file

2013-07-26 Thread Andrew Haley
On 07/26/2013 01:00 AM, David Starner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 07/24/2013 11:51 PM, David Starner wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: Not at all: we're just disagreeing about what a real system with a real workload l

Re: DejaGnu and toolchain testing

2013-07-26 Thread Rob Savoye
On 07/25/2013 06:21 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > I was interested to watch the video of the DejaGnu BOF at the Cauldron. A > few issues with DejaGnu for toolchain testing that I've noted but I don't > think were covered there include: Thanks for the thoughtful comments, they're useful as I sta

Re: DejaGnu and toolchain testing

2013-07-26 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Rob Savoye wrote: > > * DejaGnu has a lot of hardcoded logic to try to find various files in a > > toolchain build directory. A lot of it is actually for very old toolchain > > versions (using GCC version 2 or older, for example). The first issue > > with this is that it

Re: DejaGnu and toolchain testing

2013-07-26 Thread Rob Savoye
On 07/26/2013 10:37 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > Anything in the core needs to avoid obstructing toolchain changes. People > typically test with the installed DejaGnu from their OS, and the OS itself > may well be a few years old (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04), so it's undesirable for > an enhancement to

Re: DejaGnu and toolchain testing

2013-07-26 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Rob Savoye wrote: >I'd agree there is lots of crufty support for things like the old > Cygnus trees that could be removed. Ideally I'd prefer to explore > people's ideas on what would be useful for testing toolchains 5-10 years > from now. Me, I want something not dependen

Fwd: GCC 4.8.1 MIPS

2013-07-26 Thread Hendrik Greving
Forwarding this to the mailing list as I have forgotten to reply-all. Should anybody search for the same issue, my solution was to get the right gawk version. gawk generates a optionslist and options.h file. The GCC documentation states that gawk 3.1.5 is known to work. My version was broken. Reg

Cross compiler, binutils, build

2013-07-26 Thread Hendrik Greving
I am looking at how to best integrate building a cross compiler in our source tree, which is a little bit old-baken and easy to break. Nevertheless, I'd like to to it like you're supposed to do with new GCC's. I am using 4.8.1 now. Rather than describing my specific problem, let me ask very general