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Re: binutils depends on bash for powerpc


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: binutils depends on bash for powerpc
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 15:01:04 +0200
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Hello!

address@hidden (Carlos Sánchez de La Lama) skribis:

> I am still trying to bootstrap powerpc-linux-gnu. Already on the target
> machine, my problem is binutils on powerpc-linux installs a shell script
> (bin/embedspu). Currently, binutils does not depend on bash, but
> binutils-final (the implicit binutils for gnu build system) has
> bootstrap-coreutils as input. The result is an unallowed reference from
> binutils to bootstrap-binaries, making the build fail.

I’m guessing that ‘embedspu’ is for the Cell’s SPU, which is dead, so a
quick fix would be to remove this script in a post-install phase.

> I have solved it by adding static-bash-for-glibc as input for
> binutils-final, but I was wondering whether it made sense to completely
> change "bash" from bootstrap-bash to static-bash-for-glibc on %boot-inputs2 
> and
> later, thus making easier to ensure dependencies on bootstrap-bash
> are not carried on.

Yes it wouldn’t hurt to do that, so why not.

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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