This is already handled by autotools for us automatically. You can
tell as the generated output is exactly the same other than deleting
a few blank lines.
It's unclear why this was added originally, but assuming it was needed
20 years ago, it shouldn't be explicitly required nowadays. Current
versions of autotools already take care of exporting LDFLAGS to the
Makefile as needed (things are actually getting linked). That's why
the configure diffs show LDFLAGS still here, but shifted to a diff
place in the output list. A few dirs stop exporting LDFLAGS, but
that's because they don't do any linking, only compiling, so it's
correct.
As for the use of $ldflags instead of the standard $LDFLAGS, I can't
really explain that at all. Just use the right name so users don't
have to dig into why their setting isn't respected, and then use a
non-standard name instead. Adjust the testsuite to match.
The current newlib multilib logic is almost exactly the same as the
config/multi.m4, and the differences should be minor, so switch over
to that to delete custom logic on ourside.
Now that we require a recent version of autoconf, we can rely on this
macro working. This change was already made to libm, but these other
dirs were missed as I didn't notice it being duplicated in 3 places.
Now that newlib.hin has been brought up to date and all of its defines
are produced by configure, we can switch it to using autoheader without
manual editing. This relies on a few pieces:
* Moving the header & footer into configure.ac via AH_TOP & AH_BOTTOM.
* Running a post-process step on newlib.h to delete all the defines we
didn't export ourselves. Basically, anything without a _ prefix.
This will leave behind some spurious comments in newlib.h related to
the defines we filtered out, but should be harmless, so it's probably
not worth the effort to construct a more complicated sed expression to
also strip those out.
The list of iconv to/from defines is hand maintained in newlib.hin.
Lets leverage mkdeps.pl to generate this list automatically from the
list of known encodings. The newlib.hin list is up-to-date, so the
list in iconv.m4 matches the list already generated.
This will make it easier to move newlib.h to use autoheader directly.
We only want the newlib version defines in our hand curated version
file, _newlib_version.h, not in the template header, newlib.h, so
using AC_DEFINE doesn't make much sense.
Sync these back from newlib.hin to configure.ac, and touchup some of
the forms to be consistent (like being full sentences). Also use the
AC_DEFINE-vs-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED macros correctly. This will make it
easier to re-enable autoheader for managing newlib.hin.
This define is only used by newlib internally, so stop exporting it
as HAVE_INITFINI_ARRAY since this can conflict with defines packages
use themselves.
We don't really need to add _ to HAVE_INIT_FINI too since it isn't
exported in newlib.h, but might as well be consistent here.
We can't (easily) add this to newlib_cflags like HAVE_INIT_FINI is
because this is based on a compile-time test in the top configure,
not on plain shell code in configure.host. We'd have to replicate
the test in every subdir in order to have it passed down.
Since AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE calls AC_PROG_AWK, and some configure.ac
scripts call it too, we end up testing for awk multiple times. If
we change NEWLIB_CONFIGURE to require the macro instead, then it
makes sure it's always expanded, but only once.
While we're here, do the same thing with AC_PROG_INSTALL since it
is also called by AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, although it doesn't currently
result in duplicate configure checks.
The AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro has been deprecated for a while and code
should call LT_INIT with win32-dll instead. Update the calls to match.
The generated code is noisy not because of substantial differences, but
because the order of some macros change (i.e. instead of calling AS and
then CC, CC is called first and then AS).
This matches what the other GNU toolchain projects have done already.
The generated diff in practice isn't terribly large. This will allow
more use of subdir local.mk includes due to fixes & improvements that
came after the 1.11 release series.
The newlib & libgloss dirs are already generated using autoconf-2.69.
To avoid merging new code and/or accidental regeneration using diff
versions, leverage config/override.m4 to pin to 2.69 exactly. This
matches what gcc/binutils/gdb are already doing.
The README file already says to use autoconf-2.69.
To accomplish this, it's just as simple as adding -I flags to the
top-level config/ dir when running aclocal. This is because the
override.m4 file overrides AC_INIT to first require the specific
autoconf version before calling the real AC_INIT.
Libtool needs to get BSD-format (or MS-format) output out of the system
nm, so that it can scan generated object files for symbol names for
-export-symbols-regex support. Some nms need specific flags to turn on
BSD-formatted output, so libtool checks for this in its AC_PATH_NM.
Unfortunately the code to do this has a pair of interlocking flaws:
- it runs the test by doing an nm of /dev/null. Some platforms
reasonably refuse to do an nm on a device file, but before now this
has only been worked around by assuming that the error message has a
specific textual form emitted by Tru64 nm, and that getting this
error means this is Tru64 nm and that nm -B would work to produce
BSD-format output, even though the test never actually got anything
but an error message out of nm -B. This is fixable by nm'ing *nm
itself* (since we necessarily have a path to it).
- the test is entirely skipped if NM is set in the environment, on the
grounds that the user has overridden the test: but the user cannot
reasonably be expected to know that libtool wants not only nm but
also flags forcing BSD-format output. Worse yet, one such "user" is
the top-level Cygnus configure script, which neither tests for
nor specifies any BSD-format flags. So platforms needing BSD-format
flags always fail to set them when run in a Cygnus tree, breaking
-export-symbols-regex on such platforms. Libtool also needs to
augment $LD on some platforms, but this is done unconditionally,
augmenting whatever the user specified: the nm check should do the
same.
One wrinkle: if the user has overridden $NM, a path might have been
provided: so we use the user-specified path if there was one, and
otherwise do the path search as usual. (If the nm specified doesn't
work, this might lead to a few extra pointless path searches -- but
the test is going to fail anyway, so that's not a problem.)
(Tested with NM unset, and set to nm, /usr/bin/nm, my-nm where my-nm is a
symlink to /usr/bin/nm on the PATH, and /not-on-the-path/my-nm where
*that* is a symlink to /usr/bin/nm.)
ChangeLog
2021-09-27 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
PR libctf/27967
* libtool.m4 (LT_PATH_NM): Try BSDization flags with a user-provided
NM, if there is one. Run nm on itself, not on /dev/null, to avoid
errors from nms that refuse to work on non-regular files. Remove
other workarounds for this problem. Strip out blank lines from the
nm output.
This reports common symbols like GNU nm, via a type code of 'C'.
ChangeLog
2021-09-27 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
PR libctf/27967
* libtool.m4 (lt_cv_sys_global_symbol_pipe): Augment symcode for
Solaris 11.
AR from older binutils doesn't work with --plugin and rc:
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ touch foo.c
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/liblto_plugin.so rc libfoo.a foo.c
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ./ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/liblto_plugin.so rc libfoo.a foo.c
./ar: no operation specified
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ./ar --version
GNU ar (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.29.51.0.1.20180112
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$
Check if AR works with --plugin and rc before passing --plugin to AR and
RANLIB.
PR ld/27173
* configure: Regenerated.
* libtool.m4 (_LT_CMD_OLD_ARCHIVE): Check if AR works with
--plugin and rc before enabling --plugin.
config/
PR ld/27173
* gcc-plugin.m4 (GCC_PLUGIN_OPTION): Check if AR works with
--plugin and rc before enabling --plugin.
libiberty/
PR ld/27173
* configure: Regenerated.
zlib/
PR ld/27173
* configure: Regenerated.
- This patch uses gdtoa imported from OpenBSD if newlib configure
option "--enable-newlib-use-gdtoa=no" is NOT specified. gdtoa
provides more accurate output and faster conversion than legacy
ldtoa, while it requires more heap memory.
So far the build mechanism in newlib only allowed to either define
machine-specific headers, or headers shared between all machines.
In some cases, architectures are sufficiently alike to share header
files between them, but not with other architectures. A good example
is ix86 vs. x86_64, which share certain traits with each other, but
not with other architectures.
Introduce a new configure variable called "shared_machine_dir". This
dir can then be used for headers shared between architectures.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
- also change the handling of default_newlib_reent_check_verify to
be the same as other default variables in configure.host
- regenerate newlib/configure
- change sys/reent.h to replace _REENT_CHECK_DEBUG with
_REENT_CHECK_VERIFY which when set asserts that any memory
allocated is non-NULL and calls __assert_func directly
- add new --enable-newlib-reent-check-verify configure option
- add support for configure.host to specify default for
newlib_reent_check_verify
- add _REENT_CHECK_VERIFY macro support to acconfig.h and newlib.hin
- From: Cesar Philippidis <cesar@codesourcery.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 14:43:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] nvptx port
This port adds support for Nvidia GPU's, which are primarily used as
offload accelerators in OpenACC and OpenMP.
In order to avoid the year 2038 problem, define time_t to a signed
integer with at least 64-bits. The type for time_t can be forced to
long with the --enable-newlib-long-time_t configure option or with the
_USE_LONG_TIME_T system configuration define.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
At the moment when targeting bare-metal targets or systems without
definition for the locking primitives newlib, uses dummy empty macros.
This has the advantage of reduced size and faster implementation but
does not allow the application to retarget the locking routines.
Retargeting is useful for a single toolchain to support multiple systems
since then it's only at link time that you know which system you are
targeting.
This patch adds a new configure option
--enable-newlib-retargetable-locking to use dummy empty functions
instead of dummy empty macros. The default is to keep the current
behavior to not have any size or speed impact on targets not interested
in this feature. To allow for any size of lock, the _LOCK_T type is
changed into pointer to struct _lock and the _init function are tasked
with allocating the locks. The platform being targeted must provide the
static locks. A dummy implementation of the locking routines and static
lock is provided for single-threaded applications to link successfully
out of the box.
To ensure that the behavior is consistent (either no locking whatsoever
or working locking), the dummy implementation is strongly defined such
that a partial retargeting will cause a doubly defined link error.
Indeed, the linker will only pull in the file providing the dummy
implementation if it cannot find an implementation for one of the
routine or lock.
https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg01139.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-12/msg00010.html
There is no change if libtool is used.
Some run-time support libraries provided by GCC (e.g. libgomp) use
configure checks to detect certain features, e.g. availability of
thread-local storage. The configure script generates a test program and
tries to compile and link it. It should use target libraries and
startfiles of the build tree if available and not random ones from the
installation prefix for this procedure. The search directories
specified by -B are a bit special, see for_each_path() in gcc.c of the
GCC sources. First a search is performed on all search paths with the
multilib directory appended (if desired), then a second search is
performed on demand with the base directory only. For each multilib
there is a "newlib" subdirectory. This directory is specified by a -B
option for the support libraries. In order to find the newlib artifacts
(ctr0.o, libc.a, libg.a and libm.a) they must be located in a proper
multilib subdirectory withing the build directory.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Currently, the newlib version information needs to be updated in two places:
- newlib/acinclude.m4
- newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h
The goal of this patch is to:
- supply a single location for defining the newlib version
information: newlib/acinclude.m4
- define __NEWLIB__, __NEWLIB_MINOR__ and __NEWLIB_PATCHLEVEL__
This is in line with what gcc does for its version macros. See:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Common-Predefined-Macros.html
This patch moves the definition of the _NEWLIB_VERSION, __NEWLIB__
and __NEWLIB_MINOR__ macros from newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h,
to the newly generated newlib/_newlib_version.h file. Additionally,
the __NEWLIB_PATCHLEVEL__ macro was created, for completeness.
In order to stay backwards compatible, newlib/_newlib_version.h gets
included by newlib/newlib.h and newlib/libc/include/sys/features.h.
Note: This patch does _not_ include the modifications to the following
files, as these should all be generated any way.
*Makefile.in,
*aclocal.m4,
*configure
stamp-* files
Signed-off-by: Pieter du Preez <pdupreez@gmail.com>
2015-03-23 Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
* configure.in: Delete logic to determine _UINTPTR_EQ_ULONGLONG
and _UINTPTR_EQ_ULONG at configuration time.
*libc/include/sys/config.h: Add logic to determine
_UINTPTR_EQ_ULONGLONG and _UINTPTR_EQ_ULONG at compilation time.
* libc/include/inttypes.h: Add include of <sys/config.h>.
* configure: Regenerated.
* configure.in: Add autoconf test to determine size of uintptr_t.
* newlib.hin: Add new autoconf feature variables.
* libc/include/inttypes.h: Use new feature variables.
* configure: Regenerate.
Mike Frysinger
Nick Alcock
Alexander von Gluck IV
H.J. Lu
Samuel Thibault
Jeff Johnston
Jon Turney
Takashi Yano
Corinna Vinschen
Jon Beniston
Michael Haubenwallner
Sebastian Huber
Thomas Preud'homme
Pieter du Preez
Joel Sherrill