Building powerpc-eabi toolchain with newlib-1.16.0: error: C compiler cannot create executable

[Mike Cox <mike dot cox at aspenavionics dot com>]

I'm trying to build for the powerpc-eabi target.  I am not using a
unified source tree.  Initially, I was having problems build gcc-4.3.0
due to the libssp library (sounds like a useful library for detecting
stack corruption, but can't be used in a non-hosted (i.e. no C library)
environment).
 
To work around it, I thought I would build a minimal boot gcc with out
libssp, build the newlib, and then re-build gcc with libssp.  But as it
turns out, newlib has the a problem with the configure failing due to
the C compiler not creating an executable (because it can't find a -lc
which I'm trying to build (???)).
 

CROSS BUILD CONFIGURATION
 
Building on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5) with
the following cross-compile configuration:
 
BLD_HOST=x86_64-redhat-linux
BLD_TARGET=ppc-eabi
 
gmp-4.2.2
mpfr-2.3.1
bintutils-2.18
newlib-1.16.0
gcc-4.3.0
 

LOG OF STEPS
 
- gmp/mpfr "make check" for both passed all tests.  Installed
libraries/headers into prefix/lib and prefix/include.  Modified
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_RUN_PATH to include the prefix/lib dir.
 
- Ran configure for binutils (from the config.log): 
 
  $
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/tools/packages/toolchain/branches/2.0/binutils/con
figu
re --prefix=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
--bindir=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
/bin --target=ppc-eabi --enable-multilib
 
- Built, checked, and installed binutils:
 
 make -C /aspen/Users/mike.cox/build/tools-1.0/toolchain-2.0/binutils
all  make -C
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/build/tools-1.0/toolchain-2.0/binutils
 make -C /aspen/Users/mike.cox/build/tools-1.0/toolchain-2.0/binutils 
 
- Configured (see config.log excerpt below) a minimal (--without-libssp)
boot-gcc to compile my newlib:
 
  $
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/tools/packages/toolchain/branches/2.0/boot-gcc/con
figu
re --prefix=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
--bindir=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
/bin --target=ppc-eabi --disable-nls --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld
--with-gmp=/asp en/Users/mike.cox/install
--with-mfpr=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install --disable-li bssp
--enable-languages=c
 
- Built and installed boot-gcc:
 
 make -C /aspen/Users/mike.cox/build/tools-1.0/toolchain-2.0/boot-gcc
all  make -C
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/build/tools-1.0/toolchain-2.0/boot-gcc install
 
- Configured my newlib:
 
  $
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/tools/packages/toolchain/branches/2.0/newlib/confi
gure
 --host=ppc-eabi --prefix=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
 
The configuration failed with the following info in the config.log:
 

configure:3158: $? = 0
configure:3160: ppc-eabi-gcc -v </dev/null >&5 Using built-in specs.
Target: ppc-eabi
Configured with:
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/tools/packages/toolchain/branches/2.0/boo
t-gcc/configure --prefix=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
--bindir=/aspen/Users/mik e.cox/install/bin --target=ppc-eabi
--disable-nls --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --
with-gmp=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
--with-mfpr=/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install
 --disable-libssp --enable-languages=c
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.3.0 (GCC)
configure:3163: $? = 0
configure:3165: ppc-eabi-gcc -V </dev/null >&5
ppc-eabi-gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:3168: $? = 1
configure:3191: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3194: ppc-eabi-gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install/lib/gcc/ppc-eabi/4.3.0/../../../../ppc-eab
i/bin/ld
: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3197: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3236: error: C compiler cannot create executables See
`config.log' for more details.
 

Note the error message:
/aspen/Users/mike.cox/install/lib/gcc/ppc-eabi/4.3.0/../../../../ppc-eab
i/bin/ld
: cannot find -lc
 
I am not too familiar with the autoconf, but it appears this initial
test is assuming a hosted environment, i.e. that there is a C library,
which won't work for any cross, non-hosted build.  Any ideas how to work
around this?

 

Michael H. Cox (Mike)
Senior Embedded Sotware Engineer
Aspen Avionics Inc. 

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