Re: [crosstool-ng] Pre-built toolchains for testing in Buildroot

[Reinoud Koornstra <reinoudkoornstra at gmail dot com>]

Hi Thomas and Bryan,

You said: "- The MIPS uClibc toolchain fails to build gdb, weston and
civetweb (I
   believe due to uClibc issues)"

I did experience this issue as well with gcc 4.9.2
I filed it earlier and Bryan is aware too, there just isn't a fix yet.
uClibc with gcc 4.9.2 does build for arm.

With gcc 5.1.0 uclibc doesn't build and any platform.
Hence, gcc 4.9.2 and gcc 5.1.0 do not work with uclibc on all
platforms even though you can have this config.

I don't agree on moving away from uclibc all together.
Buildroot supports uclibc AND uclibc-ng.
I think crosstools-ng needs to do the same.
I'm not sure whether there'll ever be another uclibc release, but the
current git tree surely has way more added features and their mailing
list is very active.
At this moment uclibc-ng seems to make more sense, because it keeps up
with the current changes in uclibc and maintains their own branch and
releases new versions.
It surely works for me.
Thanks,

Reinoud.

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Buildroot is an embedded Linux build system, which is capable of using
> external pre-built cross-compilation toolchains. Crosstool-NG
> toolchains are supported through this mechanism.
>
> I while back, Yann E. Morin, the former maintainer of Crosstool-NG,
> created some pre-built toolchains that the Buildroot project uses to
> run some test builds against Crosstool-NG toolchains. This ensures that
> people building toolchains with Crosstool-NG will be able to use them
> with Buildroot.
>
> Those toolchains are available here:
>
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/armv5-ctng-linux-gnueabi.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/armv6-ctng-linux-uclibcgnueabi.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/armv7-ctng-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/i486-ctng-linux-uclibc.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/i686-ctng-linux-gnu.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/mips64el-ctng_n32-linux-gnu.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/mips64el-ctng_n64-linux-gnu.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/mipsel-ctng-linux-uclibc.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/powerpc-ctng-linux-uclibc.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/powerpc-ctng_e500v2-linux-gnuspe.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/powerpc64-ctng-linux-gnu.tar.xz
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.org/toolchains/tarballs/x86_64-ctng_locales-linux-gnu.tar.xz
>
> However, those toolchains are now one year old, and some of them have
> some issues:
>
>  - The uClibc toolchains were built without IPv6 support, and Buildroot
>    now requires IPv6 support to be present. Due to this, we had to
>    disable the use of all uClibc toolchains from the above list.
>
>    See
>    http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot-test/commit/?id=e11a3af5aa56ba7f44aca8e615e5b2222d860dd6
>
>  - The ARM toolchains are affected by gcc bug PR58854, causing
>    lttng-tools to fail building.
>
>  - The PowerPC toolchains are affected by gcc bug PR60155, causing a
>    build problem with SDL and mpeg2.
>
>  - The MIPS64 toolchain uses a too old glibc version, which lacks
>    SYS_getdents64, causing a build failure of Python 3.
>
>  - The MIPS uClibc toolchain fails to build gdb, weston and civetweb (I
>    believe due to uClibc issues)
>
> Is there someone in the Crosstool-NG community interested in working
> with the Buildroot community to provide more up-to-date pre-built
> Crosstool-NG toolchains, and fixing the above issues?
>
> Also, I would strongly advise Crosstool-NG to move away from uClibc,
> and use uClibc-ng instead. This project is much more lively, and has
> tons of fixes that have never been in a uClibc stable release.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas Petazzoni
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com
>
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