[Aboriginal] Toybox fails to build, No tarball? (mkdir missing on rerun)

[Rob Landley]

On 02/20/2013 10:21:25 PM, Milo Hoffmann wrote:
> Well... That was fun and interesting... In appears that T2 (release
> 8.0) has too broken of a build environment for even busybox to succeed
> building properly. Apparently GCC 4.5.0 introduced some optimizations
> or something which causes busybox as sed to core.[1] Using the
> workaround[2] still did not yield a successful build, so I decided to
> try a different host environment.
> 
> I found an unofficial LFSLiveCD for LFS 7.0 which succeeded in
> building aboriginal 1.2.2 without issue from the same directory.
> 
> Now for the fun of tweaking and building again... :D
> 
> [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43987 - [4.5
> Regression] type-punning causes broken binaries unless -O0 is used

So... gcc bug.

Yeah, right now inability to build busybox is a bit of a show-stopper.  
I'm gradually replacing stuff with toybox but it's not done yet, and  
even if it was "compiler bug" could hit anything.

> [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43987#c17 - Comment #
> 17 of [4.5 Regression] type-punning causes broken binaries unless -O0
> is used
> 
> {also, tried to send this note a few days ago and got a DNS related
> permanent failure sending to the list. See if this one does too.}

No, it came through. I dunno what the DNS error would have been? (Odd.)

Thanks for following up. Sorry it took _me_ so long to do so. :)

Rob

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