RTEMS Source Builder newlib/iconv issues on OpenBSD/Solaris

[Gedare Bloom]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Karel Gardas <karel.gardas at centrum.cz> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> on both Solaris 11 and OpenBSD 5.7 I do have an issue with source builder
> which fails on newlib compilation. This shows as:
>
> checking for sparc-rtems4.11-ar... sparc-rtems4.11-ar
> checking for sparc-rtems4.11-ranlib... sparc-rtems4.11-ranlib
> checking for sparc-rtems4.11-readelf... sparc-rtems4.11-readelf
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output...
> /tmp/rtems-sparc-toolchain/bin//sed
> checking how to print strings... print -r
> checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
> configure: error: big5 is not supported - see
> ../../../gcc-4.9.2/newlib/libc/iconv/encoding.aliases file for the list of
> available encodings
> gmake[1]: *** [configure-target-newlib] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/export/home/karel/vcs/rtems-source-builder/rtems/build/sparc-rtems4.11-gcc-4.9.2-newlib-2.2.0.20150423-i386-pc-solaris2-1/build'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> the problem is in newlib's configure file which strictly requires GNU
> sed/grep combo. The problem is the configure file itself invokes just "sed"
> and "grep". So there are two solutions to this issue:
>
> Either:
>
> - disable iconv as I did for OpenBSD in provided patch in source builder
> platform file
>
> or
>
> - put GNU sed and grep (perhaps grep is enough, but I would need to retest)
> into PATH in front of original system's grep/sed. This makes newlib
> configure happy.
>
> The general question is what's better and how to solve this issue? Just a
> note in builder doc for both platforms? Or custom patch to newlib to check
> for ggrep/gsed and when available to use them? Or just disabling iconv
> completely in platform .py file of the source builder itself? Or hacking
> source builder to support building GNU sed/grep on problematic platform,
> installing in RTEMS bin and use that and this way make newlib happy?
>
Probably start with a note. The last option you gave is probably the
most suitable, to have RSB able to build the required dependency
packages from source. Whether to patch newlib or not should be
consulted to the newlib mailing list.

I don't know the ramifications to disable iconv, whether it is
actually needed for the builds being done or not.

Gedare

> Any idea/preference welcome here.
>
> Thanks!
> Karel
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