binutils failing to build on alpha [solved]

[Lupin_the_3rd]

Build failure is below. Note that the error is "error: asm/page.h: No such file or directory" which sounds like a path is wrong somewhere or a symlink is wrong or something. Anyone have any suggestions? TIA!!


/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd -I. -DTRAD_CORE -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/../include -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe -c -o trad-core.lo /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c
alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd -I. -DTRAD_CORE -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd -I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/../include -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe -c /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/trad-core.o
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c:44:
/usr/include/sys/user.h:26:22: error: asm/page.h: No such file or directory
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c: In function 'trad_unix_core_file_p':
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c:117: error: 'PAGE_SIZE' undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c:117: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/bfd/trad-core.c:117: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[4]: *** [trad-core.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/build/bfd'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/build/bfd'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/build/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/work/build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1632: Called dyn_compile
ebuild.sh, line 983: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
ebuild.sh, line 1322: Called toolchain-binutils_src_compile
toolchain-binutils.eclass, line 225: Called die

!!! emake failed
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!!! A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-2.17.50.0.16/temp/build.log'.
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[didymos]

Looks like you ran into kernel header changes:

stabilize sanitized headers (sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.21)

binutils and alpha are specifically mentioned. More links:

binutils fails to build for some targets (trad-core.c) with sanitized headers

sanitized linux-headers tracker

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/46590/

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-02/msg00215.html

A newer binutils may have fixed it. Try binutils-2.17.50.0.17 or binutils-2.17.50.0.18 (I'd say .18, as .17 supposedly had some other, unrelated bugs). By the way, your topic is misleading. It's not glibc that's failing at all.
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Thomas S. Howard

[Lupin_the_3rd]

Looks like binutils needs the newer glibc 2.5, but that's failing to build as well.
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Compaq XP1000 Alpha EV67 667Mhz w/ 2GB ECC
32bit PCI: ATI Radeon 9100 (DRI works!)
32bit PCI: Generic Firewire 400 card
64bit PCI: BCM5703 Gig-E (Compaq NC7771)
64bit PCI: Sil3124 SATA w/ mdadm RAID1 (pair of WD VelociRaptors)

[YosWinK]