looks like i missed the patch for m4, again my mistake sorry. thanks, stephen On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:01 PM, stephen Turner wrote: > It appears like gmp doesn't play nice with musl hosts? a musl target is > fine allowing a cross environment to work but not a pure musl evnironment > or specifying musl as the host. > > I created a cross compiler successfully but using the cross compiler to > "recreate itself" hasn't worked when rebuilding gmp as a part of the > process. It could be me, everything up to this point has been apparently > but i was hoping someone could chime in and let me know if they have > compiled gmp on a native musl system or if it requires a patch i missed or > some gnu code? > > thanks, > stephen > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:49 PM, stephen Turner < > stephen.n.turner@gmail.com> wrote: > >> GMP errors out with "invalid configuration 'non-pc-linux-musl' not >> recognized. Im using the --target and --host flags i686-linux-musl and >> --build i686-linux-gnu. I also tried switching to a chroot musl env and >> running a plain configure on gmp only and it complains the compiler cant >> create executables which i know to be false. >> >> Will GMP compile on a musl system? >> Google search showed one other person with the issue but no answer. >> >> thanks, >> stephen >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, stephen Turner < >> stephen.n.turner@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It looks like your right, I just ran a compile specifying musl headers >>> and this time it worked. I need to review my process yet again and see what >>> changed that fixed this issue. >>> >>> I new this wouldn't be easy but man i didn't expect it to feel this >>> finicky or fickle. >>> >>> thanks, >>> stephen >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Justin Cormack < >>> justin@specialbusservice.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:02 PM, stephen Turner >>>> wrote: >>>> > I have been trying various ways of compiling a musl system using gcc >>>> and >>>> > found that GCC-4.7.3 does not seem to want to compile against musl >>>> headers. >>>> > I install the linux headers in /usr/include then i install musl and >>>> move its >>>> > headers to /usr/include. then i specify -I/usr/include to gcc and it >>>> errors >>>> > every time (technically its /cross/usr/include as i have a separated >>>> env >>>> > from my host system) The same compile works fine against musl libs >>>> but not >>>> > the headers. The only change made from a working to a non-working >>>> system >>>> > appears to be the use of the musl generated headers. >>>> > >>>> > In the scripts to build a musl toolchain (such as gregorr) the header >>>> > location is not specified but sysroot is used (which obviously isn't >>>> linking >>>> > against the headers) I first started to see this issue when >>>> chroot'ing into >>>> > a newly created musl gcc system. >>>> > >>>> > Is musl suitable as a stand alone libc replacement? Should i not be >>>> building >>>> > against musl headers? If there is any reports or details you want me >>>> to >>>> > provide please let me know. >>>> >>>> You want to use a chroot or a VM with Musl if you are having these >>>> issues. Sabotage or Alpine are good options. It will save a lot of >>>> grief. Otherwise you are doing somethnig wrong that is hard to >>>> diagnose without much moer info. >>>> >>>> Justin >>>> >>> >>> >> >