[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems building newlib/libgloss 1.17 for spu

[Ken Werner]

On Thursday 02 April 2009 15:37:26 Dan Munckton wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just in case I'm wasting my time here ... is anyone aware of, or working
> to fix any known problems building newlib 1.17 for spu?
>
> Having been updated to v1.17 from 1.16 in Ubuntu it stopped building
> libgloss and therefore crt1.o is missing, which means spu-gcc fails to
> compile things.
>
> The first change I've noted is the configure script now sets --host=spu
> whereas in the old working version it was set to powerpc-linux-gnu. That
> brings libgloss back but it's failing to build. So I'm in the middle of
> chasing down why, and wondered if there were known issues with this
> version of newlib.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dan

Hi Dan,

are you using the 1.17 release or CVS head?
I'm building newlib from head like this:
../src/configure \
   --disable-shared \ 
   --enable-multilib \
   --disable-nls \
   --target=spu \
   --prefix=/usr 

Ken