[Clfs-support] CLFS for ppc on LFS 6.3 host

[Joe Ciccone]

Anthony Drake wrote:
> Joe Ciccone wrote:
>  
> > This is most likely because your prog has the wrong path of ld.so
> <http://ld.so/>
> > embedded in it. If you get a target binary, run this command on it and
> > compare it to your shared hello world binary.
>
> Joe,
>  
> Right again.  The binary was expecting /tools/lib/ld.so.1, as expected
> in CLFS cross compilation environment.  The target has
> /opt/ppc/powerpc-linux/lib/ld.so.1.  To see if I could get the shared
> library loader resolved, I added a link, then set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> pick up libc.so.6, and copied libgcc_s.so.1 from cross-tools on my
> CLFS machine, then joy! The shared version of hello world actually ran.
>  
>  I suppose I could go back and reconfigure binutils --with-lib-path=
> set to the target library path.  I guess that sets the ld.so path that
> linker encodes in binaries.
No, that is in the spec file of gcc. What i would do is modify the gcc
specs patch, either that or make a sysroot compiler, (See the sysroot
book for more info)
>  
> So this is all forward progress.   My next step is to attempt to build
> some packages with powerpc-gcc, which seems daunting in that there are
> several interdependent packages that need to be built and installed to
> work together: passwd, userlib, pam, and on and on.  I plan on
> consulting CLFS for hints as to how to set a build environment which
> will use the cross compiler, linker, librarian, etc.
>  
> So thank you, you provided just the hint I needed to get in and find
> what was wrong.
You're Welcome.
>  
> Regards, Anthony Drake