------- Comment #3 from spkelly at andrew dot cmu dot edu 2006-07-31 18:35 ------- I'd really expected to have good news, but even with newlib and gcc rebuilt for powerpc-eabisim, I still get the same error (with and without -msim, which sounds to be the default for *-eabisim anyway). I also found I needed to compile sim-crt0 manually after building gcc for eabisim, unlike with eabi. And now that I think about it, shouldn't output object files be compatible for building provided I keep the same host/build/target, regardless of whether that target is correct for the platform I plan to run on...? (eg, when I originally built for powerpc-eabi, shouldn't the default settings have let me compile programs for ~some~ real powerpc-eabi -mtarget, regardless of whether or not they ran in the simulator?)
On the one hand I do feel guilty about getting dev assistance off a bug list when there may not actually be a bug involved. On the other hand, if there isn't a bug but simply so many caveats that one can't sit down, follow stock documentaton and get a working build, that in its self seems to point to a usability issue which could be better addressed. ----- The new error, as such, with a sim-crt0.o compiled from .../newlib-1.14.0/libgloss/rs6000/sim-crt0.S in the local directory (the 'No such file' error otherwise triggered is useless for telling where it should actually go): powerpc-eabisim-gcc -msim arithtest.c /scratch/spkelly/ppcbin/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-eabisim/4.1.1/libgcc.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ----- The line used to compile gcc (without errors): ../configure --target=powerpc-eabisim --prefix=/scratch/spkelly/ppcbin/ --disable-threads --disable-shared --enable-languages=c make all-gcc install-gcc -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28551
