The gold linker cannot currently be built in a static toolchain build.
This may get fixed in a future version of crosstool-NG.
Also, there is a bit of weirdness here. versions of binutils >= 2.21
have GOLD (BINUTILS_HAS_GOLD), but that doesn't mean it should be used.
For instance, if the architecture is not supported.
So with that, we create a new hidden option: BINUTILS_GOLD_SUPPORT
Which in turn depends on BINUTILS_GOLD_SUPPORTS_ARCH, BINUTILS_HAS_GOLD,
and not STATIC_TOOLCHAIN... then replace anything that previously
depended on BINUTILS_HAS_GOLD with our new BINUTILS_GOLD_SUPPORT option.
This closes#210
Signed-off-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
Support binutils 2.25.1 in configuration.
Note: The patches do apply, but I didn't check the resulting tools.
Signed-off-by: Jasmin Jessich <jasmin@anw.at>
As posted on http://www.eglibc.org/
====================
EGLIBC is no longer developed and such goals are now being addressed
directly in GLIBC.
====================
I'm not interested in maintaining build support for unsupported
software.
Older branches of crosstool-ng continue to have eglibc support.
If you find issues with older branches, I'm always open to pull
requests.
Removing eglibc also frees up glibc cleanup and build optimization.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
No need to 'select' gold and plugins in versions later
than 2.21, since we inherit them with 2_21_or_later.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Thus spake Niels:
This commit adds support for binutils 2.23.2
http://crosstool-ng.org/hg/crosstool-ng/rev/bc4b36e3df0c
However, in 'config/binutils/binutils.in <http://binutils.in>' the
Kconfig option to select this version of binutils does not automatically
select the symbol 'BINUTILS_2_23_or_later'. This makes gold unavailable
for the latest version of binutils. I'm not sure whether this is on
purpose or not, my impression is that you forgot to add the line "select
BINUTILS_2_23_or_later".
The problem still persists in the latest version in the repository
(032ebcc89c96).
Reported-by: Niels Penneman <niels@penneman.org>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
It's been some time now we've had those features, so unmark them
being experimental.
It does not mean everything is perfect, but may gather some more
testing of those features.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
It's been a while we've had those versions, time to unmark them being
experimental. It does not mean everything is perfect, but may gather
some more testing on those versions.
Update samples accordingly.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Rework binutils in order to provide soon binutils alternative.
Signed-off-by: Yann Diorcet <diorcet.yann@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: split up original patch for self-contained changes]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Message-Id: <d3d1d51f399e6d2c1163.1353320546@macbook-smorlat.local>
Patchwork-Id: 199971
In preparation of adding a new kernel-type, Yann D. came up
with a change in semantic on binutils/gold availability.
So far, it was architectures' responsibility to declare that
they did support binutils/gold or not. It makes much more sense
that binutils/gold declares its own availability depending on
the current architecture; after all, architectures have no way
to know wether gold supports them, while gold does know it.
Signed-off-by:Yann Diorcet <diorcet.yann@gmail.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: split up original patch for self-contained changes]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Message-Id: <d3d1d51f399e6d2c1163.1353320546@macbook-smorlat.local>
Patchwork-Id: 199971
sstrip has been obsoleted for a while now, as it's still broken
for some archs, and there seems to be no incentive to fix it
upstream. Besides, the space gained with sstrip is marginal at
best.
Signed-off-by: Yann Diorcet <diorcet.yann@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <65c8bf534d0647ce52cd.1353320545@macbook-smorlat.local>
Patchwork-Id: 199970
CUSTOM_LOCATION config options only presented in menuconfig if component
CUSTOM version selected.
Change elf2flt CT_ELF2FLT_VERSION from 'head' to 'cvs' if cvs selected in config
Also remove hardcoded 'cvs-' from elf2flt component name, used in CT_Extract,
CT_Patch and as the CT_SRC_DIR location for the configure stage.
Signed-off-by: "David Holsgrove" <david.holsgrove@xilinx.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: fix indentation, don't patch custom dir location]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Message-Id: <288db3721a37844defa5.1349931196@localhost.localdomain>
PatchWork-Id: 190789
binutils 2.21 doesn't recognise the Cortex-M3 SVC instruction when
assembling with -mcpu=all. This was fixed by the 2.21.53 snapshot and
is needed to build RTOSs such as FreeRTOS.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hope <michael.hope@linaro.org>
Recently, all binutils versions have been renamed after a GPL compliance
issue was found and fixed in binutils;
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00198.html
Although legacy symlinks have been put in place, we should now use
the new, real version strings.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Recently, all binutils versions have been renamed after a GPL compliance
issue was found and fixed in binutils;
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00198.html
Old versions are no-longer available since the rename (eg. 2.19 has been
superseeded by 2.19.1, and only 2.19.1a was regenerated).
Remove now-missing versions.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
This patch makes binutils benefit from the TOOLCHAIN_PKGVERSION and
TOOLCHAIN_BUGURL options.
Signed-off-by: "Benoît THÉBAUDEAU" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
kconfig bools are disabled by default, so specifying 'default n' is useless and
noisy. This patch removes all occurrences of 'default n'.
Signed-off-by: "Benoît THÉBAUDEAU" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Update help entries for thos variables that accept multiple
arguments with spaces (aka. array-capable variables).
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Make it explicit that a variable is an array bu the name of the variable.
It will be used later when .config gets munged to allow both multiple
arguments and arguments with spaces at the same time to be passed from the
configuration down to the build scripts.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
gold is not capable of building glibc/eglibc, so we have to
force using the BFD linker, ld.bfd.
Offer a blind option that affected components can select to
force use of the BFD linker during the build.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
gold is not capable of building glibc/eglibc. See this thread:
http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2011-04/msg00010.html
Reported-by: Bill Pringlemeir <bpringle@sympatico.ca>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
The gold linker does currently support only a limited set of architectures:
- x86 (32- and 64-bit)
- ARM
Hide the gold option for other architectures.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Plugins are shared objects, and when building a toolchain statically,
the gcc build system breaks havok (although there is no hard technical
reasons it should not be possible)...
And consequently, do not enable plugin supoprt in binutils.
Reported-by: Thomas Spurden <thomas@ado.is-a-geek.net>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
When both gold and ld are installed, add a wrapper that calls
to either gold or ld.
In case the wrapper is installed, we also need to symlink ld.bfd
and ld.gold for the core_cc steps.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
When configured with support for threads, gold can link in
parallel, possibly cooperating with a make jobserver.
Add an option enabling threads.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
gold is a new, optimised, multi-threaded linker with support
for plugins.
Add support for gold starting with binutils 2.21. Although 2.20
also had gold, the configure flags have changed, and supporting
2.20 would be a mess in the code.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Add BINUTILS_2_21_or_later blind option. It will be used to add
conditional support for building 'gold' on versions that have it.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
sstrip is causing more trouble and grief than tolerable.
It is broken at least on PPC. It does not build on non-ELF
systems (eg. mingw32, MacOS-X...). Plus, it is easy to
install.
Hide it behind OBSOLETE.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
