Re: [coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

[Marc Karasek]

Myles,

Disregard my feeble wanderings..  I was thinking about my attempt to 
move busybox to 1.10.1 and the problems I was seeing there.

I think though the two are related.  Seems that uClibc 0.9.29 no longer 
supports the toolchain wrappers for -nostdlib and forcing a linking with 
native tools (gcc/binutils) and a compiled uClibc library.  This was 
pulled in 0.9.22 according to the uclibc FAQ.  Maybe it was just a one 
off that FC5 still worked.    What I see when I try 1.10.1 is it does 
not link properly and I get a 496 byte busybox file that says it is 
statically linked but is actually not even a valid exec file.  I am 
working on trying to get buildroot to build me a valid environment that 
I can then use to build busybox correctly under buildrom.  Either that 
or I pull the uclibc stuff from buildrom and see what glibc does in 
terms of size to the binary.

Marc

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Marc Karasek
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Myles Watson wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Marc Karasek  wrote:
> > Myles,
> >
> > When you build the broken one:
> > Is it a real exec file?  Or is the file like 496 bytes? What does file
> >
> > busybox report?
>
> initrd-rootfs/bin/busybox is about 200K
>
> Did you mean a different file?  I think the error would come sooner if
> busybox were linked incorrectly.
> > What version of uclibc was the FC5 system using?
>
> The same as the FC6.  9.29.  I bumped it up for SimNow because 9.28
> didn't have a file necessary for x86_64.
> > can you do a make in the busybox directory outside of buildrom in
> >
> > work/busybox/busybox-a.b.c/ and look at the output from this,  i.e. is the
> > busybox file have a correct size and is dynamic linked, etc..
>
> I don't think I have that problem.  Maybe you're talking about a different file?
>
> Myles
> > Marc
> >
> > Marc Karasek
> > MTS
> > Sun Microsystems
> > mailto:[e-mail]
> > ph:770.360.6415
> >
> > Myles Watson wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:22 PM
> > > > To: Myles Watson
> > > > Cc: [e-mail]
> > > > Subject: Re: [coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem
> > > >
> > > > Crap,  another compiler/tools problem.  I hate these..  what version of
> > > > gcc/binutils did you use under FC5?
> > >
> > > gcc 4.1.1 for x86_64 release 51.fc5
> > > binutils 2.16.91.0.6 for x86_64 release 5
> > >
> > > I wouldn't have upgraded, but I couldn't build a working version of qemu
> > > with those tools.  Now I have two broken systems :(
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Myles