Problems building the cross toolchain

[oliverbrandt]

Using the raspi-armeb branch I ran configure with the following arguments: ~/src/aros/AROS/configure --target=raspi-armeb --with-serial-debug --enable-ccache --with-portssources=~/src/aros/ports --with-gcc-version=6.3.0

Running make the build fails in /home/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/gen/host/tools/crosstools/gcc/armeb-aros/libgcc on creating the cross toolchain:

configure:3653: checking for suffix of object files
configure:3675: /home/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/gen/host/tools/crosstools/gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/home
/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/gen/host/tools/crosstools/gcc/./gcc/ -B/home/oliver/src/aros/aros-ras
pi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/tools/crosstools/armeb-aros/bin/ -B/home/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/too
ls/crosstools/armeb-aros/lib/ -isystem /home/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/tools/crosstools/armeb-ar
os/include -isystem /home/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/tools/crosstools/armeb-aros/sys-include    -
c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
Assembler messages:
Error: unknown architecture armv7ve

Error: unrecognized option -march=armv7ve
configure:3679: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Runtime Library"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libgcc"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.0"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Runtime Library 1.0"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL "http://www.gnu.org/software/libgcc/"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3693: error: in `/home/oliver/src/aros/aros-raspi-armeb/bin/linux-x86_64/gen/host/tools/crosstools/gcc/armeb-a
ros/libgcc':
configure:3696: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile

Do you have any idea why this happens and how to fix it?

[michalsc]

You need to build AROS with newer version of binutils. The one which is picked up by default is too old and it does not know about armv7ve architecture. Please build AROS with binutils 2.30:

configure --target=raspi-armeb --with-gcc-version=6.3.0 --with-binutils-version=2.30

[oliverbrandt]

Thanks! That did the trick and now I am able to build the image.