[Clfs-support] MIPS 32 (big endian)

[Petric Frank]

Hello Jim,

On Dienstag, 13. Januar 2009, Jim Gifford wrote:
> > i tried to build CLFS for a MIPS32 (big endian) platform which has no
> > MMU.
> >
> > Following guide "Cross-Compiled Linux From Scratch - Embedded - Version
> > SVN-0.0.1-20081203-mips" it went well until i tried to configure uClibc
> > (chapter 6.8.1) with no-MMU. For that after "make oldconfig" i called
> > "make menuconfig" and switched the option "Target CPU has a memory
> > management unit (MMU)" to off. At the same time two lines upper the file
> > format changed from ELF to FDPIC ELF.
> >
> > If i now try to comile uClibc i get the following output:
> > ------------------------- cut -------------------------
> >   GEN include/bits/sysnum.h
> >   GEN include/bits/uClibc_config.h
> >   LN include/pthread.h
> >   LN include/semaphore.h
> >   LN include/bits/pthreadtypes.h
> > [...]
> >   LN include/sys/procfs.h
> >   LN include/sys/regdef.h
> >   LN include/sys/sysmips.h
> >   LN include/sys/tas.h
> >   LN include/sys/ucontext.h
> >   LN include/sys/user.h
> >   AS lib/crt1.o
> > libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S: Assembler messages:
> > libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S:134: Warning: No .cprestore pseudo-op used
> > in PIC code
> >   AS lib/Scrt1.o
> > libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S: Assembler messages:
> > libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S:134: Warning: No .cprestore pseudo-op used
> > in PIC code
> >   AS lib/crti.o
> > cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-mfdpic"
> > make: *** [lib/crti.o] Error 1
> > ------------------------- cut -------------------------
> >
> > Is there a way to fix it ?
> > My assemby capabilities are not good enough to do that myself ;-)
> >
> > Or am i doing that (switching MMU support off) at the wrong place ?
>
> Uclibc has gone through a lot of changes. After I get CLFS standard
> stabilized, I will concentrate on this book.

Could you give me a note when an update is available ?

regards
  Petric