On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 09:41:20PM +0200, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 
> Hey!
> 
> > Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
> >
> > This is exciting news!  Looking forward to having full-source
> > bootstrapped AArch64… and it looks like there’s already activity on a
> > ‘wip-’ branch.
> 
> Yes, it is!  The ARM bootstrap story is still a bit flakey, as
> stage0-posix does not support ARM.  So, ARM would need
> %bootstrap-mescc-tools and %bootstrap-mes binary seeds...meh.
> 
> However, aarch64-linux now bootstraps from 526 bytes all the way until
> gcc-core-mesboot 2,95.3.  Very nice!
> 
> We're still stuck at building a full gcc+glibc combo;
> glibc-mesboot-2.2.5 builds, but possibly not correctly; as the full
> gcc-mesboot0 (2.95.3) build fails at configure time: gcc-core-mesboot0 +
> glibc-mesboot0
> 
>        ?: 0 [execle "./gencheck" # "./gencheck"]
>     ERROR: In procedure execle: Exec format error
> 
> Not sure what to do here.  We could somehow try to debug/bisect this.
> We could try to use a newer glibc; glibc-2.2.5 happened during the
> OABI/EABI switch and is heavily patched.  Or, we could try to remove
> glibc-2.2.5/gcc-2.95.3 altogether and aim for a direct tcc => gcc-4.6.4.
> We need to go that way anyway for RISCV.

Which hardware are you building on? On my pine64 I'm getting stuck at
tcc-0.9.26-1134-g80114c4d
On commit 519f4c8c9a0b191e9a447116685393c2fed4cd3b

starting phase `build'
  CC         tccpp.c
->type--: not a <type>: (typename "BufferedFile")
->type--: not a <type>: (typename "BufferedFile")
  CC         tccgen.c
  CC         tccelf.c
unexpected size:8
rank--: not a pointer: #<<type> type: signed size: 1 description: #f>
rank--: not a pointer: #<<type> type: signed size: 1 description: #f>
  CC         tccrun.c
  CC         arm-gen.c
unexpected size:8
  CC         arm-link.c
  CC         arm-asm.c
  CC         tccasm.c
  CC         libtcc.c
  CC         tcc.c
  CCLD       mes-tcc
mkdir -p /gnu/store/d3kcgm0z3yyc7bplaacr7g0j8gk36h5j-tcc-boot0-0.9.26-1134-g80114c4d/lib/tcc
rm -f crt1.o;
cp -f /gnu/store/nli76zd955d9xksy01qrfzlizq4c28kd-mes-boot-0.24.1//lib/crt1.c .
crt1.c:149: warning: implicit declaration of function 'main'
rm -f crti.o;
cp -f /gnu/store/nli76zd955d9xksy01qrfzlizq4c28kd-mes-boot-0.24.1//lib/crti.c .
rm -f crtn.o;
cp -f /gnu/store/nli76zd955d9xksy01qrfzlizq4c28kd-mes-boot-0.24.1//lib/crtn.c .
rm -f libc.a
cp -f /gnu/store/nli76zd955d9xksy01qrfzlizq4c28kd-mes-boot-0.24.1//lib/libc+gnu.c libc.c
error: in phase 'build': uncaught exception:
srfi-34 #<condition &invoke-error [program: "sh" arguments: ("bootstrap.sh") exit-status: 1 term-signal: #f stop-signal: #f] 10f6100>
phase `build' failed after 21994.9 seconds


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