[linuxsh-dev] New toolchain

[Denis D. <dp...@pr...>]

I am having some problems building the new toolchain.

Specifically I am building:
binutils-001005.tar.gz with patch binutils-001005.diff.gz
egcs-core-20001002.tar.gz with patch gcc-200010002.diff.gz
glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2 

1) What are the configuration options for gcc to prevent it trying to
build zlib. Currently
   I configure gcc as per Stuart Menefy's notes and it attempts to build
zlib and bombs. I
   can work around this by changing into the gcc subdirectory and doing
a make install here
   but there must be a better way.

2) The new cpplib in gcc looks to have some bugs. This causes it to
produce strange output
   into the kernel/arch/sh/ld.script. I have worked around this with an
awk script.

3) gcc now exits with an error when compiling an empty file. Parts of
glibc do this.
   Again the work around is straight forward.

4) Finally I am having problems getting the new ld.so.1 and glibc.so.6
working on my
   target. I just get segmentation faults when I install ld.so.1. I
noticed that the ABI
   has changed. Does this mean that I also need different kernel
support. It could
   also be that I have missed a patch. I am currently using a patched
version of
   glibc-2.1.3. Would going to glibc2.2 help?

Thanks in advance for the help

Regards,
Denis Dowling