Re: Linux kernel cross-compilers

[Guenter Roeck]

On 08/16/2013 02:45 AM, Max Filippov wrote:
> > > Guenter,
> > > can you share a complete build log with V=1?
> >
> > http://roeck-us.net/linux/logs/make.xtensa.log.bad
> > http://roeck-us.net/linux/logs/make.xtensa.log.ok
> >
> > Key difference: the failing command in the bad case is
> >          xtensa-linux-objcopy -O elf32-xtensa-le
> > and in the good case
> >          xtensa-linux-objcopy -O elf32-xtensa-be
> >
> > Same compiler (4.6.3 from kernel.org), same configuration file, same command
> > line.
> > Configuration file is generated from defconfig, and the resulting .config
> > file
> > is the same in both cases.
> >
> > If I execute make and expicitly set BIG_ENDIAN=1 on the failing system as
> > parameter to it,
> > it works fine. If I set BIG_ENDIAN=0 on the passing system, it fails.
> >
> > I am puzzled. Guess there must be something different, but I have no idea
> > what it might be.
>
> What is the output of
>
> echo -e __XTENSA_EB__ | xtensa-linux-gcc -E -
>
> on the failing system?
It is "1", but that let me pinpoint the problem.

On the failing system, the version of echo executed by make does
not understand the "-e" option. Thus, when running arch/xtensa/boot/Makefile,
"echo -e __XTENSA_EB__" returns "-e __XTENSA_EB__", which doesn't compile,
and BIG_ENDIAN ends up being 0. So the compiler is completely innocent.

I found out the root source: SHELL is set the /bin/sh, which on the failing
system points to /bin/dash (default in Ubuntu, or at least it used to be).
dash apparently has a built-in version of echo which does not understand '-e'.
Oh well.

Thanks a lot for helping me to track this down!

Guenter

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