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From: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
To: Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com>
Cc: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	newlib@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Various libgloss problems after recent changes
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:16:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOox84u8CHh=P0X=WWnHRz2WKTRX5AZiX+X9+R7QYQCcYuMGUQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b808342f-4cc9-8eae-f1ad-423fdfd130f9@foss.arm.com>

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On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 6:21 AM Richard Earnshaw <
Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/02/2023 22:54, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > Want to try out the attached patch?
> >
> > -- Jeff J.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 7:48 PM Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The fr30-elf and xstormy16-elf ports have been failing to build for
> >> about a month with this error:
> >>
> >>    > fr30-elf-as  -I. -I../../../../..//newlib-cygwin/libgloss/fr30/..
> >> -I./.. -idirafter
> >> ../../../../..//newlib-cygwin/libgloss/fr30/../../include  -o crt0.o
> >> ../../../../..//newlib-cygwin/libgloss/fr30/crt0.s
> >>> fr30-elf-as: unrecognized option '-idirafter'
> >>
> >>
> >> For a full log:
> >>
> >> http://law-sandy.freeddns.org:8080/job/fr30-elf/1984/console
> >>
> >> Hopefully this is easy to fix so we can get those ports under regular
> >> testing again.
> >>
> >> Jeff
> >>
> >>
>
> I'm slightly confused.  Why would some ports have -idirafter and some
> not, unless they're not using GCC (or a very old one).
>
> So wouldn't a autoconf test for -idirafter be a better approach rather
> than hard-coding it.
>

Yes, I should have picked a better flag name - I really just wanted to
exclude the 2 platforms that don't need the -idirafter statement in the
first place.
A better way would be to simply add a flag to indicate specifically that a
config wants to include files in top level include.


> Note that if it's due to the option not being supported in old versions
> of gcc, then that's a bigger problem because the reason the option was
> added in the first place (IIRC) was to support moving arm-acle-compat.h
> out of the newlib subdir so it could be used with libgloss.  And
> arm-acle-compat.h is there to support older versions of GCC.
>
> And that brings up another question.  Just how old a version of GCC do
> we want to support these days?  ACLE support was added to GCC 10 years
> ago, in GCC-4.8. If we can drop support for compilers older than that,
> we can drop using the compatibility header and get rid of the need for
> -idirafter entirely.
>
> R.
>
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-10 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06  0:48 Jeff Law
2023-02-09 22:54 ` Jeff Johnston
2023-02-10 11:21   ` Richard Earnshaw
2023-02-10 16:54     ` Jeff Law
2023-02-21 21:39       ` Jeff Johnston
2023-02-22  7:16         ` Jeff Law
2023-02-22 16:20           ` Jeff Johnston
2023-02-22 16:40             ` Jeff Law
2023-02-22 17:54             ` Jeff Law
2023-02-22 18:06               ` Jeff Johnston
2023-02-10 17:16     ` Jeff Johnston [this message]
2023-12-04  6:49     ` Mike Frysinger
2023-02-10 16:52   ` Jeff Law
2023-12-04  7:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "Fix libgloss/newlib build to conditionally use top include dir" Mike Frysinger
2023-12-04  7:03   ` [PATCH 2/2] libgloss: drop $(INCLUDES) when using $(AS) Mike Frysinger

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