From: Adrian Cox <apc AT transtech-design DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: linux to msdos cross compiler
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:08:41 +0000
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Adrian Cox wrote:
> I'm trying to follow the new howto:
> http://www.delorie.com/howto/djgpp/linux-x-djgpp.html

> $ ld/ld-new -V
> GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1)
>   Supported emulations:
>    i386go32
> ld/ld-new:built in linker script:24: parse error

> Has anybody seen anything like this, and if so, have they solved it? Am
> I just running the wrong version of Linux?

OK - I now have the cure. The i586-pc-msdosdjgpp target can only work
with the linker script supplied with djgpp. This linker script is called
by the djgpp specs file.

But:
The build process of gcc-2.8.1 does not know that it needs to use that
specs file to build libgcc1-test, and will thus fail. One solution is to
disable the building of libgcc1-test in gcc/Makefile after you
configure:
# Verify that it works to compile and link libgcc1-test.
# If it does, then there are sufficient replacements for libgcc1.a.
libgcc1-test: libgcc1-test.o native $(GCC_PARTS)
	@echo "Testing libgcc1.  Ignore linker warning messages."
	# $(GCC_FOR_TARGET) $(GCC_CFLAGS) libgcc1-test.o -o libgcc1-test \
	#  -nostartfiles -nostdlib `$(GCC_FOR_TARGET) --print-libgcc-file-name`
	touch libgcc1-test

There could be a better solution based on patching the gcc-2.8.1 package
before configuring, but this little hack works enough for me.

- Adrian Cox