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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:04:54 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Shorter report: powerpc64-xtoolchain-gcc use fails from powerpc (non-64)
Message-ID:  <83AB15DC-4B96-489D-A74B-84A552050785@bsdimp.com>
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> On Apr 1, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2015-Apr-1, at 02:49 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Attempting to use CROSS_TOOLCHAIN=powerpc64-gcc on powerpc (non-64) 11.0-CURRENT with TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64 gets:
>>> 
>>>> --- crti.o ---
>>>> gcc -O2 -pipe   -I/usr/srcC/lib/csu/powerpc64/../common  -I/usr/srcC/lib/csu/powerpc64/../../libc/include  -mlongcall -std=gnu99  -Wsystem-headers -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wunused-parameter -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Winline -Wnested-externs -Wredundant-decls -Wold-style-definition -Wno-pointer-sign    -c /usr/srcC/lib/csu/powerpc64/crti.S
>>>> ...
>>>> /usr/srcC/lib/csu/powerpc64/crti.S: Assembler messages:
>>>> /usr/srcC/lib/csu/powerpc64/crti.S:35: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
>>>> /usr/srcC/lib/csu/powerpc64/crti.S:51: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
>>>> *** [crti.o] Error code 1
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Read below only for analysis.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> First I'll deal with the error messages. Then I'll deal with the "gcc".
>>> 
>>> The lines of crti.S in question are:
>>> 
>>>>    .quad   .L._init,.TOC.@tocbase,0
>>>> ...
>>>>    .quad   .L._fini,.TOC.@tocbase,0
>>> 
>>> The error messages are because __powerpc64__ is not defined when machine/asm.h is included so the wrong definition is used for _ENTRY(…):
>> 
>> The gcc port needs to be fixed, with changes fed upstream.
> 
> The head/lib/csu/powerpc64/Makefile generated "gcc" as the command (see above). That in turn ended up as using: /usr/bin/gcc , which is the FreeBSD 4.2.1 system gcc.
> 
> So no port was involved. That may be the (or a) problem: ${XCC} was not being used.

That’s an interesting hole. It should be.

>>>> #ifdef __powerpc64__
>>>> ...
>>>> #define _ENTRY(name) \
>>>>     .section ".text"; \
>>>>     .p2align 2; \
>>>>     .globl  name; \
>>>>     .section ".opd","aw"; \
>>>>     .p2align 3; \
>>>>     name: \
>>>>     .quad   DOT_LABEL(name),.TOC.@tocbase,0; \
>>>>     .previous; \
>>>>     .p2align 4; \
>>>>     TYPE_ENTRY(name) \
>>>> DOT_LABEL(name):
>>>> ...
>>>> #else /* !__powerpc64__ */
>>>> #define _ENTRY(name) \
>>>>     .text; \
>>>>     .p2align 4; \
>>>>     .globl  name; \
>>>>     .type   name,@function; \
>>>>     name:
>>>> #define _END(name)
>>>> #endif /* __powerpc64__ */
>>> 
>>> The (powerpc64 specific) Makefile may need to force a 64-bit usage (-m64 ?), presuming that such is supported from the 32 bit environment.
>> 
>> Generally, we’ve not added those kinds of flags to the command line. There’s many subtle issues in the tree trying to do that…
>> 
>> Warner
> 
> From a powerpc (non-64) 11.0-CURRENT boot is the following supposed to work by producing a powerpc64 appropriate result (no CROSS_TOOLCHAIN for this question)?
> 
> make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC64 TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64

This should work, modulo broken compilers.

> The standard v4.2.1 /usr/bin/gcc in a powerpc context (non-64) for that make command would produce files for TARGET_ARCH=powerpc unless the command lines specified otherwise.

Ah, so it is a ‘cross build’ situation...

> Notably the build environment is picking powerpc64 specific paths when appropriate, such as:
> 
> lib/csu/powerpc64/Makefile
> 
> so that specific Makefile is not likely to be used when powerpc64 handling is inappropriate, even executed from from a powerpc (non-64) context. A different path (and so a distinct Makefile) would be used for KERNCONF=GENERIC TARGET_ARCH=powerpc .

The hack in that Makefile likely needs to be revisited.

Warner


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