[oe] Latest binutils-cross-2.20.1-r10.0 build issue with binutils-2.20.1 on gentoo host

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 02:15:56PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft at inbox.ru> wrote:
> > On 11:13 Tue 08 Jun     , Khem Raj wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dmitry Artamonow <mad_soft at inbox.ru> wrote:
> >> > On 23:14 Mon 07 Jun     , Martin Jansa wrote:
> >> >> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > FYI:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > If you run into issue
> >> >> > ar: can't set BFD default target to `x86_64-pc-linux-gnu': Invalid bfd target
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Like I did in:
> >> >> > http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/packages/601631/
> >> >> >
> >> > Yup. I got this breakage too, only binutils-cross version is 2.18-r10.2
> >> > and error is:
> >> > ar: can't set BFD default target to `i686-pc-linux-gnu': Invalid bfd target
> >> >
> >> > see for example http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/packages/602258/
> >> >
> >> > Though I didn't dig into problem deeply and simply workaround it by
> >> > reverting 208ece17f76686e0faa44b2a9223fcadb692a991
> >> > But I'll gladly test any patches fixing the issue (whatever it is) in a
> >> > proper way.
> >>
> >> proper way is to fix binutils on your host.
> >
> > Ahh, sorry - misread original Martin's post. So it's seems to be
> > Gentoo-specific problem (yes, my OE is on Gentoo too).
> > Still wondering why it worked before and how it's connected with adding
> > "--enable-shared" in 208ece17f766. Weird, because it breaks on building
> > static library.
> 
> it is a latent problem in there which just gets exposed with this change.

Just for reference there is gentoo bug I reported
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323319

now it's closed as INVALID

which is not 100% right imho as that broken patch (broken only with
multitarget is applied in ebuild) and --enable-plugins is task for
eclass not upstream.. but you can fix it locally..

Cheers,
-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com