Re: 23.0.60 bootstrap fails for maemo

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Thomas Baumann <dtbaumann@yahoo.de> writes:

  > > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
  > >
  > >> Thomas Baumann <dtbaumann@yahoo.de> writes:
  > >> 
  > >>   > I'm trying to compile emacs23 for os2008 using the maemo-4.0 sdk but
  > >>   > somehow the bootstrap fails. I'm working with a fresh copy of the cvs
  > >>   > files checked out today. 
  > >>   > 
  > >>   > The problem looks very much like the emacs23/cygwin problem discussed
  > >>   > earlier, but I was not able to test all of the possible solutions
  > >>   > mentioned there.
  > >>   > 
  > >>   > Any help is highly appreciated.
  > >> 
  > >> Not sure if this helps, but first try to bootstrap on the host so that
  > >> you have all the .elc files, and then configure for the target again and
  > >> just run make. (If the problem you are facing is the byte compiler
  > >> encoding bug that's been discussed here, you might be able to get over
  > >> it this way)...
  > >> 
  > >
  > > I think I tried this before - configure with CHINOOK_X86 and compile
  > > (works ok). configure with CHINOOK_ARMEL... and a new error...
  > >
  > > if i delete and recompile pre-crt0.o for the target I get the same error
  > > as before
  > >
  > 
  > After days of testing and trying to debug the bootstrap I finally
  > compiled the byte-compile parts of bootstrap directly on the N810: and
  > it works :-) Strange and not a permanent solution, though. 
  > 
[snip]
  > 3. compilation is possible on the target itself: the build directory has
  >    to be mounted with nfs and make has to be installed on the
  >    device. Compile emacs until the first error occurs, continue on the
  >    target and finally make install and build the package on the host.

So it seems that building works on real hardware, but it fails when
using the cross-compiler + simulator. That would point out to a problem
in that setup, maybe a bug in the simulator.