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authorMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>2019-11-01 10:57:16 +0200
committerMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>2019-11-01 10:57:16 +0200
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Remove incorrect --host=${DEFAULT_TARGET} when building host tools/libraries
When passing --host to autoconf build systems, it means that one wants to build code that is going to run on this specific target. When building host tools/libraries, we're building code that is going to run on the current host system, not ${DEFAULT_TARGET}. Building with the incorrect --host parameter has appeared to work despite this, due to other fallbacks in autoconf. When building with --host=<triple>, autoconf first looks for <triple>-gcc, but if this isn't found, then proceeds to use gcc and assumes this is what the caller meant. When building GMP, its configure script wants to inspect symbol names, and uses a name listing tool (normally nm) for this purpose. When building gmp_host, with the incorrect --host parameter, it first looks for <triple>-nm, which doesn't exist. As the previously set incorrect triple is for a Windows OS (x86_64-nt64-midipix), it then looks for other windows type name listing tools, <triple>-dumpbin, then unprefixed dumpbin. If dumpbin is found (I happen to have it around, as a wine wrapper around MSVC tools, for convenience), it is used, but then fails to inspect the ELF object files that the compiler has used. By removing the incorrect --host parameter, the host toolchain deps build succeeds by not relying on autoconf implicitly doing the right thing despite the incorrect parameter. Also remove --target from HOST_TOOLCHAIN_DEPS_CONFIGURE_ARGS. Adding --target when building host tools generally is correct, when configuring tools that generate code (like binutils and gcc). For other projects that don't generate code, --target normally has no effect. GMP explicitly errors out if --target is set to a different value than host (as GMP's configure script thinks the caller has made a mistake).
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