install "Nios II Linux v1.4 released"

Welcome.

Follow this thread, it will save you.

http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3174 (http://forum.niosforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3174)

hi,

try to follow the thread on a debian distribution.

does not run succesfully till the end.

regards torsten

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originally posted by torsten grevsmuehl@Apr 21 2006, 04:43 PM

hi,

try to follow the thread on a debian distribution.

does not run succesfully till the end.

regards torsten

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I use Fedora Core 5 and Slackware 10.2 .

Jdhar uses Ubuntu.

Where do you fail?

Please check if you have gcc3.xx ?

Torsten,

I have built uClinux successfully on the Debian platform. There were small problems (which maybe Debian-related?), but basically it works OK for me.

What fails exactly? Please post some details on this thread.

The cross gcc is finished.

the problem is in making elf2flt .

try remove toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt dir, and make again.

if still failed in making elf2flt, check those include headers.

hi!

sorry, it&#39;s me again.

what include files should be checked at which location.

what Makefile should i try again?

could i have a problem with permissions etc.?

regards grevsmuehl

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originally posted by torsten grevsmuehl@Apr 24 2006, 08:49 PM

hi!

sorry, it&#39;s me again.

what include files should be checked at which location.

what makefile should i try again?

could i have a problem with permissions etc.?

regards grevsmuehl

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Please check this first.

/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/bfd.h:38:22: ansidecl.h: No such file or directory

/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/bfd.h:39:20: symcat.h: No such file or directory

On my FC5, there are /usr/include/ ansidecl.h and symcat.h .

hootsmon, would you give some hints about Debian?

Buildroot runs in user account. It does not need root account. So the user permissions should be Okay.

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originally posted by torsten grevsmuehl@Apr 24 2006, 06:58 PM

make -j1 -c /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt all

make[1]: entering directory `/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt&#39;

gcc -g -o2 -dpackage_name=\"\" -dpackage_tarname=\"\" -dpackage_version=\"\" -dpackage_string=\"\" -dpackage_bugreport=\"\" -dstdc_headers=1 -dhave_sys_types_h=1 -dhave_sys_stat_h=1 -dhave_stdlib_h=1 -dhave_string_h=1 -dhave_memory_h=1 -dhave_strings_h=1 -dhave_inttypes_h=1 -dhave_stdint_h=1 -dhave_unistd_h=1 -dhave_fcntl_h=1 -dhave_unistd_h=1 -dhave_vprintf=1 -dhave_dcgettext=1 -dtarget_nios2 -i/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/ -o elf2flt /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt/elf2flt.c /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt/stubs.c /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/libbfd.a /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/libiberty/libiberty.a

in file included from /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt/elf2flt.c:52:

/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/bfd.h:38:22: ansidecl.h: no such file or directory

/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/bfd.h:39:20: symcat.h: no such file or directory

in file included from /home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt/elf2flt.c:52:

/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/bfd.h:834: error: parse error before "params"

/home/grev/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15-build/bfd/bfd.h:838: error: parse error before "params"

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I see this exact behaviour on my Debian platform too, so now we can confirm this is definitely Debian related (I thought it might be).

The good news is there&#39;s a 1-line workaround, but for now I have to work from memory, since I&#39;m not at my Debian PC today. Basically, just hack elf2flt&#39;s Makefile, so that "ansidecl.h" is found in the include path. I don&#39;t know why only Debian need this. I will make a patch tomorrow, but in the meantime, give this a try....

1) cd ~/buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt/

2) find .. -name "ansidecl.h" -print

* Note path for "ansidecl.h", I think its in current dir?

3) vi Makefile

* search for "-I"

* add another -I {path} so that ansidecl.h and friends are includable

4) make clean

5) make

6) make install

7) cd ~buildroot

8) make

That should make buildroot OK. At this stage I recommend rebuilding busybox, as per step# 12 of hippo&#39;s buildroot guide.

Good luck http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

Here is my patch to make elf2flt compile properly on Debian platform....

Index: toolchain/elf2flt/elf2flt.mk
===================================================================
--- toolchain/elf2flt/elf2flt.mk        (original)
+++ toolchain/elf2flt/elf2flt.mk        (working copy)
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
        (cd $(ELF2FLT_DIR); rm -rf config.cache; 
                $(ELF2FLT_DIR)/configure 
                --with-bfd-include-dir=$(BINUTILS_DIR1)/bfd/ 
+               --with-binutils-include-dir=$(BINUTILS_DIR)/include/ 
                --target=$(REAL_GNU_TARGET_NAME) 
                --with-libbfd=$(BINUTILS_DIR1)/bfd/libbfd.a 
                --with-libiberty=$(BINUTILS_DIR1)/libiberty/libiberty.a \

Thorsten, here&#39;s how to apply it....

1) Save the patch into ~/download/elf2flt.diff

2) cd ~/buildroot

3) patch -p0 <~/download/elf2flt.diff

4) rm -rf toolchain_build_nios2/elf2flt

5) make

Hippo, does this patch look allright to you?

Will it have any affect on non-Debian users?

Should something like this go in svn?