Re: mips-linux-ld: target elf32-bigmips not found

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Zhang Shengqi wrote:
>     I tried to build a mips-linux toolchain on Fedora Core 3 Linux as the following:
> 
>     1. Build binuitls-2.15:
> 
>         ../binutils-2.15/configure --target=mips-linux --prefix=/home/szhang/mips-linux-tools/
>        ./make
>        ./make install
> 
>     2. Build glibc-2.3.4
>        ../glibc-2.3.4/configure --host=mips-linux --build=i686-linux --with-tls --enable-add-ons --prefix=/home/szhang/mips-linux-tools
>        ./make
>        ./make install
> 
>     3. Build gcc-3.4.2
>       ../gcc-3.4.2/configure --target=mips-linux --host=i686-linux --prefix=/home/szhang/mips-linux-tools --enable-languages=c --with-headers=/home/szhang/mips-linux-tools/include --disable-shared
> 
>       I try to use the toolchain to build a project after it is built and installed. But I met the following error:
> 
>      "mips-linux-ld: target elf32-bigmips not found"

Did you try a google search for that error message?
It was reported once before in another context:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg12958.html
which makes me believe that at some point around 2002,
binutils renamed the target elf-32bigmips to tradbigmips.

So have a look at your project's build log, see
what options the linker was invoked with, and
see if you can find where the elf32-bigmips came from.
You might also downgrade your binutils or update
the source for the project in question.

Here's an example of how the linux kernel made the switch:
http://www.funet.lkams.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-html/patch-2.4.22/linux-2.4.22_arch_mips_baget_ld.script.balo.html

Also, how did you build glibc-2.3.4 without a crosscompiler?
Something seems funny there.  You must have had one
there already...
- Dan

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