GSOC POSIX Compliance: Stuck trying to build Newlib

[Joel Sherrill]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 10:57 AM Matthew Joyce <mfjoyce2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dr. Joel,
>
> I tried that in newlib/libc and there were at least no errors.
> (Nothing leading me to believe it was successful either!)
>
> However I still got the same error when I sudo make install.
> (sparc-rtems-ranlib: command not found) (among others!)
>

The target should be sparc-rtems6 when you configure newlib.
This should mean invoking the script like "./j-newlib sparc-rtems6"


And the RTEMS tools should be in your PATH.

type sparc-rtems6-gcc

To be sure.

--joel

>
> Thanks again!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 3:06 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >
> > Does adding --no-recursive and running it only from the directory you
> touched a build system file in help?
> >
> > It is regenerating a lot you don't want to touch anyway.
> >
> > --joel
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2021, 5:32 AM Matthew Joyce <mfjoyce2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Eshan,
> >>
> >> Thanks very much for your follow up! Ok, I see now that if I go into
> >> development/newlib/newlib-cygwin/newlib and run autoreconf -fvi with
> >> the v2.69 using the PATH that Dr. Joel just showed, it starts to run.
> >> It always eventually exits with an error though. (please see attached
> >> .txt). I hope you can read that...I used the command "script" to
> >> output everything to a text file.
> >>
> >> Do you have any idea where I might be going wrong?
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Matt
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:23 PM Eshan Dhawan <eshandhawan51 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi matt
> >> > It would work if run inside newlib instead of newlib-cygwin
> >> > run command inside of ../newlib-cygwin/newlib
> >> > instead of ../newlib-cygwin
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:59 PM Matthew Joyce <mfjoyce2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Ah, ok will do! Thank you for the tip.
> >> >>
> >> >> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 7:17 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org>
> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Just a note, it's more efficient to capture your terminal dump
> into a
> >> >> > text file and attach that, rather than put a screenshot up.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:14 AM Matthew Joyce <
> mfjoyce2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Hi Gentlemen,
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Thanks very much for your quick replies!
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > I just tried both, but perhaps I'm misinterpreting your
> suggestions.
> >> >> > > (Could you please see the attached commands / errors!)
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Eshan,
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > I did see that link, but it wasn't clear to me what the solution
> was...Sorry!
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Sincerely,
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Matt
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 6:52 PM Eshan Dhawan <
> eshandhawan51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > Hi Matt,
> >> >> > > > Try running the command with autoconf version 2.69 that's
> shipped with RTEMS in the rtems bin
> >> >> > > > That works as well.
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > Also From a quick google search this is what I found :
> https://superuser.com/questions/617872/cant-locate-autom4te-channeldefs-pm-in-inc-when-it-definitely-is-there
> >> >> > > >
> >> >> > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 9:12 PM Matthew Joyce <
> mfjoyce2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> Hello Dr. Joel and Eshan,
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> I have a patch ready to send to Newlib for the sig function
> prototypes
> >> >> > > >> and STR2SIG_MAX.
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> But to do that, I think I need to have Newlib built, which I
> must
> >> >> > > >> still be doing wrong. The error that I am getting is attached
> below.
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> I’ve been trying to follow the steps here:
> >> >> > > >>
> https://medium.com/my-gsoc-2019-journey/apply-newlib-patch-to-rtems-source-builder-6873b0fb31b8
> >> >> > > >> and
> https://medium.com/my-gsoc-2019-journey/build-newlib-for-sparc-and-arm-architecture-6b3287d4c6f2
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> I even had rebuilt everything from scratch to see if that
> would help,
> >> >> > > >> but I still get the same error. Maybe I cloned the newlib
> source into
> >> >> > > >> the wrong directory?
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> I was hoping to get the patch off to Newlib for review as a
> first step
> >> >> > > >> while I work on writing the actual methods. When you get a
> moment,
> >> >> > > >> could you please advise? Thank you very much!
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> Sincerely,
> >> >> > > >>
> >> >> > > >> Matt
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