GSOC POSIX Compliance: Stuck trying to build Newlib

[Eshan Dhawan]

Hi Matt,
> On 16-Jun-2021, at 9:27 PM, 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!)
> 
I make works then there is no need to run make install it just copies the build binaries to the root folders.

If make is build with the changes u made and the symbols that you added appear in the binaries you generated.
Then congratulations :) 
Now you just need to test those changes in the RSB to test they don’t break anything in the RTEMS ecosystem. 
> 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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