Re: msp430 binutils-2.21.1 make install error

[Peter Bigot <bigotp at acm dot org>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:01 AM, roelof 't Hooft <roelofh@itholland.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build the latest binutils package for
> which I downloaded the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/
> For the msp430 version I applied the patch found in
> mspgcc-20110716.tar.bz2 downloaded from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mspgcc/files/mspgcc/mspgcc-20110716.tar.bz2/download

Please note that msp430 support has been unchanged in GNU binutils
since the currently listed maintainer stopped work on it sometime
around 2006.? The patches you referenced are maintained under the
mspgcc project, and questions about them should be directed to the
mspgcc-users mailing list.? See the project homepage at
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mspgcc/index.php?title=MSPGCC_Wiki
for contact information.

I've been maintaining the GNU toolchain hosted at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mspgcc/ for a little over a year.
While I would like the changes to be pushed upstream, it is currently
infeasible to identify who contributed to them over the last five
years, so this is unlikely to happen.

There's also an outstanding question
http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2010-08/msg00214.html on how to
manage to support an architecture that has over 380 distinct
microcontrollers for which there are over 120 variants on
linker-related memory maps.  The mechanism currently used by mspgcc's
binutils patches is not compatible with how binutils expects
architectures and machines to be defined.

I believe there are packages maintained for debian-based repositories;
you're probably best simply installing those.

Peter

>
> I followed the information in the readme's.
> - extracted the contents of mspgcc-20110716.tar.bz2
> - extracted the contents of binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2
> - applied the patch as described in
> ?msp430-binutils-2.21.1-20110716.patch
> - created a build dir in my homedir with mkdir -p build/binutils
> - changed directory to build dir
> - executed /media/data/pcsoftware/mspgcc/binutils-2.21.1/configure
> ?--target=msp430 --prefix=/opt/msp430 2>&1 | tee co
> - executed make 2>&1 | tee mo
> - executed make install 2>&1 | tee moi
>
>
> The make command alone finished with no error's but
> make install gives me grief :
>
> roelofh@castle:~/build/binutils$ make install 2>&1 | tee moi
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/roelofh/build/binutils'
> /bin/bash /media/data/pcsoftware/mspgcc/binutils-2.21.1/mkinstalldirs /opt/msp430 /opt/msp430
> mkdir -p -- /opt/msp430 /opt/msp430
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/msp430': Permission denied
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/opt/msp430': Permission denied
> make[1]: *** [installdirs] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/roelofh/build/binutils'
> make: *** [install] Error 2
>
>
> Of course I did not run the command above with su or sudo, but :
>
> roelofh@castle:~/build/binutils$ sudo make install 2>&1 | tee moi
> [sudo] password for roelofh:
> make: *** No rule to make target `configure', needed by `config.status'.
> Stop.
>
>
> or :
>
> roelofh@castle:~/build/binutils$ su
> Password:
> root@castle:/home/roelofh/build/binutils# make install 2>&1 | tee moi
> make: *** No rule to make target `configure', needed by `config.status'.
> Stop.
>
>
> My computer runs Debian Linux :
>
> roelofh@castle:~/build/binutils$ uname -a
> Linux castle 2.6.38.8 #1 SMP Wed 3 Aug 2011 23:15:23 CEST i686 GNU/Linux
>
>
> If anybody has suggestions about this, it seems that something
> is missing but I can not figured it out and could not find a
> clue while searching various forum archives or with the help
> of my good friend Google.
>
> Roelof
>
>
>
>
>
> roelofh@castle:~/build/binutils$ less co
> checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... msp430-unknown-none
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether ln works... yes
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
> checking for gawk... no
> checking for mawk... mawk
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking for gnatbind... no
> checking for gnatmake... no
> checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... no
> checking how to compare bootstrapped objects... cmp --ignore-initial=16
> $$f1 $$f2
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking for version 0.10 (or later revision) of PPL... no
> checking for default BUILD_CONFIG...
> checking for bison... bison -y
> checking for bison... bison
> checking for gm4... no
> checking for gnum4... no
> checking for m4... m4
> checking for flex... flex
> checking for flex... flex
> checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
> checking for expect... no
> checking for runtest... no
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for as... as
> checking for dlltool... no
> checking for ld... ld
> checking for lipo... no
> checking for nm... nm
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for strip... strip
> checking for windres... no
> checking for windmc... no
> checking for objcopy... objcopy
> checking for objdump... objdump
> checking for msp430-cc... no
> checking for msp430-gcc... no
> checking for msp430-c++... no
> checking for msp430-g++... no
> checking for msp430-cxx... no
> checking for msp430-gxx... no
> checking for msp430-gcc... no
> checking for msp430-gcj... no
> checking for msp430-gfortran... no
> checking for msp430-ar... no
> checking for msp430-as... no
> checking for msp430-dlltool... no
> checking for msp430-ld... no
> checking for msp430-lipo... no
> checking for msp430-nm... no
> checking for msp430-objdump... no
> checking for msp430-ranlib... no
> checking for msp430-strip... no
> checking for msp430-windres... no
> checking for msp430-windmc... no
> checking where to find the target ar... just compiled
> checking where to find the target as... just compiled
> checking where to find the target cc... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target c++... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target c++ for libstdc++... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target dlltool... just compiled
> checking where to find the target gcc... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target gcj... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target gfortran... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target ld... just compiled
> checking where to find the target lipo... pre-installed
> checking where to find the target nm... just compiled
> checking where to find the target objdump... just compiled
> checking where to find the target ranlib... just compiled
> checking where to find the target strip... just compiled
> checking where to find the target windres... just compiled
> checking where to find the target windmc... just compiled
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
> no
> checking whether -fkeep-inline-functions is supported... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
>
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