Re: [Mingw-users] How to build a cross compiler

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Chris Bishop wrote:
 >
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/kit/xmingw/binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1/intl'
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  intl-compat.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  bindtextdom.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  dcgettext.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  dgettext.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  gettext.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  finddomain.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  loadmsgcat.c
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DGNULOCALEDIR=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/opt/xmingw32/share/locale:.\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.  -s -O2  localealias.c
> localealias.c:156:42: warning: unknown escape sequence '\M'
> localealias.c:156:42: warning: unknown escape sequence '\o'
> localealias.c:156:42: \x used with no following hex digits
> localealias.c:156:42: warning: unknown escape sequence '\s'
> localealias.c:156:42: warning: unknown escape sequence '\l'
> make[2]: *** [localealias.o] Error 1
> 
> On examining localealias.c, it would appear that the problem is
> related to the ":." at the end of aliaspath in
> binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1/intl/Makefile.
> 
> At least, removing the :. does fix this problem even if it isn't the
> correct solution.
> 

This is a result of translating variables with path lists within MSYS. 
The rule I use is that a path list must contain a \ directory separator 
and not a / directory separator.  This causes the four warnings and one 
error and line 156 because when gcc sees LOCALE_ALIAS_PATH it has a 
value of "C:\MSYS\opt\xmingw32\share\locale:.".  And gcc treats \ as 
translate the next character to an escape sequence.

By removing :. the value is "C:/MSYS/opt/xmingw32/share/locale" and gcc 
likes this.

> With this change (even if not totally appropriate), binutils build
> seems to complete OK.
> 
> I now execute:
>            cd binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1 && \
>                    make install > ../binutils-install.log 2>&1
> 
> This fails and the last few relevant lines of binutils-install.log
> are:
> 
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/kit/xmingw/binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1/bfd/doc'
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kit/xmingw/binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1/bfd/doc'
> gcc -c -I.. -I./.. -I./../../include -I./../../intl -I../../intl  -g -O2 ./chew.c
>       0 [main] sh 1352 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to sh.exe.stackdump
> make[3]: *** [chew.o] Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> The contents of sh.exe.stackdump are:
>

I think I've found this problem.  I'll upload a snapshot shortly.

Earnie.