Re: Unable to build with --enable-shared

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 07:19:02PM -0500, Laine Gholson wrote:
> I suggest that you put '-B/usr/local/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu', in
> $CC, because it is needed for the C compiler to run correctly, e.g
> CC="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -B/usr/local/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu",
> and that will work fine with the current configure script.

Indeed. Options which are of the class "the compiler driver does not
work at all, or does not have the right target/ABI, without this
option" belong in $CC. This also applies to things like -m32.

In Samuel's case, though, I think the cross compiler was just built
incorrectly if it's not searching the right tool path by default.
Maybe it doesn't realize it's a cross compiler or something.

Rich


> On 10/23/16 17:20, Samuel Sadok wrote:
> >2016-10-23 18:17 GMT+02:00 Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>:
> >>On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 02:22:28AM +0200, Samuel Sadok wrote:
> >>>2016-10-22 23:58 GMT+02:00 Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>:
> >>>>* Samuel Sadok <innovation-labs@appinstall.ch> [2016-10-22 22:37:46 +0200]:
> >>>>>I am unable to build musl with --enable-shared. Multiple issues in
> >>>>>unrelated projects (e.g. here: https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-1023)
> >>>>>suggest that the culprit is a change in behaviour between binutils
> >>>>>2.25 and 2.26.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>that bug is different, that's about object symbols
> >>>>
> >>>>(swift seems to misuse protected visibility objects,
> >>>>and instead of fixing the problem they switched to the
> >>>>gold linker which does not yet have the bfd linker fix,
> >>>>such incompetence is frustrating..  however the issue
> >>>>does not affect musl: we don't mark objects protected
> >>>>to avoid issues with broken toolchains.)
> >>>
> >>>That's precisely why I'm trying to get away from Apple.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>$ make
> >>>>>[...]
> >>>>>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 -I./arch/x86_64
> >>>>>-I./arch/generic -Iobj/src/internal -I./src/internal -Iobj/include
> >>>>>-I./include  -include vis.h -B/usr/local/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-
> >>>>>-fPIC -c -o obj/src/process/posix_spawn.lo src/process/posix_spawn.c
> >>>>
> >>>>some flags are missing here.. e.g. freestanding flags
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for the pointer, that turned out to be the problem.
> >>>
> >>>I should mention that I am cross-compiling from macOS. Since I had a
> >>>Linux VM flying around, I tried to build musl there (success) and
> >>>compared the logs.
> >>>Looking at config.mak, there apparently was a serious misconfiguration:
> >>>
> >>>config.mak on the cross-build system (macOS):
> >>>
> >>>CFLAGS_AUTO = -include vis.h
> >>>CFLAGS_C99FSE =
> >>>CFLAGS_MEMOPS =
> >>>CFLAGS_NOSSP =
> >>>LDFLAGS_AUTO =
> >>>LIBCC =
> >>
> >>This probably indicates something is wrong with your cross toolchain;
> >>even if you manually fix config.mak, I would be concerned that
> >>something might have been built wrong. What cross toolchain are you
> >>using and how was it setup? How did you invoke configure?
> >>
> >>Rich
> >
> >I managed to track down the problem.
> >
> >I'm using a cross-toolchain I built from source with a slight
> >misconfiguration. Specifically, I must tell it where it is
> >(-B/usr/local/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-), otherwise it uses the
> >(incompatible) default linker.
> >
> >Now when the configure script checks whether some flag is working, it
> >forgets to pass the user-defined $CFLAGS to the compiler, which then
> >fails:
> >
> >tryflag () {
> >printf "checking whether compiler accepts %s... " "$2"
> >echo "typedef int x;" > "$tmpc"
> >if $CC $CFLAGS_TRY $2 -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> >[...]
> >
> >Thus, we end up with no flags at all.
> >
> >Even though I'm aware that my setup is quite non-standard, I would
> >consider this a bug in the configure script. I appended a patch that
> >fixes the problem in all places where I spotted it. Using this patch I
> >am able to configure and build musl as expected.
> >Does this seem reasonable to you?
> >
> >
> >
> >From 084678f6c93ed0bf305ea0fbb35a33810c4c9ccc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Samuel Sadok <innovation-labs@appinstall.ch>
> >Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:10:04 +0200
> >Subject: [PATCH] Pass CFLAGS to compiler under all circumstances in configure
> > script
> >
> >---
> > configure | 15 ++++++++-------
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/configure b/configure
> >index 707eb12..c1466ce 100755
> >--- a/configure
> >+++ b/configure
> >@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ echo "typedef int x;" > "$tmpc"
> > echo "#if $1" >> "$tmpc"
> > echo "#error yes" >> "$tmpc"
> > echo "#endif" >> "$tmpc"
> >-if $CC $2 -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> >+if $CC $CFLAGS $2 -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > printf "false\n"
> > return 1
> > else
> >@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ fi
> > tryflag () {
> > printf "checking whether compiler accepts %s... " "$2"
> > echo "typedef int x;" > "$tmpc"
> >-if $CC $CFLAGS_TRY $2 -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> >+if $CC $CFLAGS $CFLAGS_TRY $2 -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > printf "yes\n"
> > eval "$1=\"\${$1} \$2\""
> > eval "$1=\${$1# }"
> >@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ fi
> > tryldflag () {
> > printf "checking whether linker accepts %s... " "$2"
> > echo "typedef int x;" > "$tmpc"
> >-if $CC $LDFLAGS_TRY -nostdlib -shared "$2" -o /dev/null "$tmpc"
> >>/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> >+if $CC $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS_TRY -nostdlib -shared "$2" -o /dev/null
> >"$tmpc" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > printf "yes\n"
> > eval "$1=\"\${$1} \$2\""
> > eval "$1=\${$1# }"
> >@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ echo "#if ! __GLIBC__" >> "$tmpc"
> > echo "#error no" >> "$tmpc"
> > echo "#endif" >> "$tmpc"
> > printf "checking for toolchain wrapper to build... "
> >-if test "$wrapper" = auto && ! $CC -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc" >/dev/null
> >2>&1 ; then
> >+if test "$wrapper" = auto && ! $CC $CFLAGS -c -o /dev/null "$tmpc"
> >>/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > echo "none"
> > elif test "$cc_family" = gcc ; then
> > gcc_wrapper=yes
> >@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ fi
> > # Find the target architecture
> > #
> > printf "checking target system type... "
> >-test -n "$target" || target=$($CC -dumpmachine 2>/dev/null) || target=unknown
> >+test -n "$target" || target=$($CC $CFLAGS -dumpmachine 2>/dev/null)
> >|| target=unknown
> > printf "%s\n" "$target"
> >
> > #
> >@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ test "$debug" = yes && CFLAGS_AUTO=-g
> > printf "checking whether we should preprocess assembly to add
> >debugging information... "
> > if fnmatch '-g*|*\ -g*' "$CFLAGS_AUTO $CFLAGS" &&
> >    test -f "tools/add-cfi.$ARCH.awk" &&
> >-   printf ".file 1 \"srcfile.s\"\n.line
> >1\n.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_endproc" | $CC -g -x assembler -c -o /dev/null
> >2>/dev/null -
> >+   printf ".file 1 \"srcfile.s\"\n.line
> >1\n.cfi_startproc\n.cfi_endproc" | $CC $CFLAGS -g -x assembler -c -o
> >/dev/null 2>/dev/null -
> > then
> >   ADD_CFI=yes
> > else
> >@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ tryldflag LDFLAGS_AUTO -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
> > # Find compiler runtime library
> > test -z "$LIBCC" && tryldflag LIBCC -lgcc && tryldflag LIBCC -lgcc_eh
> > test -z "$LIBCC" && tryldflag LIBCC -lcompiler_rt
> >-test -z "$LIBCC" && try_libcc=`$CC -print-file-name=libpcc.a 2>/dev/null` \
> >+test -z "$LIBCC" && try_libcc=`$CC $CFLAGS -print-file-name=libpcc.a
> >2>/dev/null` \
> >                  && tryldflag LIBCC "$try_libcc"
> > printf "using compiler runtime libraries: %s\n" "$LIBCC"
> >
> >@@ -719,6 +719,7 @@ printf "creating config.mak... "
> > cmdline=$(quote "$0")
> > for i ; do cmdline="$cmdline $(quote "$i")" ; done
> >
> >+
> > exec 3>&1 1>config.mak
> >
> >