Use of -meabi option in gcc powerpc compile - gcc

I have inherited a powerpc project that built fine under a SUSE linux environment back around 2008. My goal is to build the same thing in Linux Mint (v 17). The target processor is a powerpc, which is set in the environment variables, I believe. During the build on Mint linux, it produces the following error:
developer#Will-test-Mint-VM ~/temp/linux.apps $ make -f Makefile.runme
make DESTDIR=`pwd`/tmp install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/developer/temp/linux.apps'
Making install in libStreamerControl
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/developer/temp/linux.apps/libStreamerControl'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -I../include -ffixed-r14 -meabi -fno-builtin -std=gnu99 -Wall -g -O2 -MT streamerControl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/streamerControl.Tpo -c -o streamerControl.lo streamerControl.c
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -I../include -ffixed-r14 -meabi -fno-builtin -std=gnu99 -Wall -g -O2 -MT streamerControl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/streamerControl.Tpo -c streamerControl.c -o streamerControl.o
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-meabi'
make[2]: *** [streamerControl.lo] Error 1
...
It is complaining about the -meabi option. I have installed/updated some packages that may be relevant (updated versions of eldk-5.6, automake, libtool, and powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc 4.8.2).
Specifically, I would like to know about the -meabi option. I didn't find a lot about it. What could be causing the compiler to not know what it is? I saw the output build from the SUSE setup, and it handled the -meabi option fine. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Will

From your comment, it sounds like you're cross compiling here (ie., your build architecture is not the same as your host architecture). In this case, your (build) gcc won't recognise -meabi, as it's only valid for the host gcc.
So, you'll need to get your project building with the correct compiler for this to work. The method to do this will depend on the makefiles in your project. You've mentioned ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE, but these variables are specific to the Linux kernel's build system.
At a guess, your makefiles probably use some fairly standard variables to control the choice of compiler & toolchain, like CC, LD, etc. Try something like:
make -f Makefile.runme CC=powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc LD=powerpc-linux-gnu-ld
If your compile still fails, you may need to provide sources (or links to) your Makefiles.

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Modifying configure.ac - check for package presence

My main development platform is Gentoo on Linux. However, recently I tried to build my program on the fresh VM install on Debian.
My program contains of main binary and couple of dll/so/dylib libraries. One of the libraries depends on the presence of unixODBC/iODBC.
I was told by unixODBC maintainers to use odbc_config script to identify the build parameters.
When I build on Gentoo - everything works fine. There is no problems.
However, when I build on Debian - the build fails because apparently Debian does not produce odbc_config script and instead in this case rely on pkg-config.
So, I need to add a test in configure.ac to check for odbc_config script presence and pass it along to one of the so files generation (lets call it libodbc_lib project).
Could someone please help me with this?
EDIT:
Is this correct to be put in configure.ac:
AC_CHECK_PROG(ODBC,odbc_config,yes)
if test x"${ODBC}" == x"yes" ; then
ODBC_CFLAGS = `odbc_config --cflags`
ODBC_LIBS = `odbc_config --libs` -lodbcinst
else
ODBC_CFLAGS = `pkg-config odbc --cflags`
ODBC_LIBS = `pkg-config odbc --libs` -lodbcinst
fi
AC_SUBST(ODBC_CFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(ODBC_LIBS)
If it is - how do I use ODBC_FLAGS/ODBC_LIBS in my subproject?
EDIT2:
Based on this answer I used the following code:
In the main configure.ac:
AC_CHECK_PROG(ODBC,odbc_config,yes)
if test x"${ODBC}" == x"yes" ; then
ODBC_CFLAGS = `odbc_config --cflags`
ODBC_LIBS = `odbc_config --libs` -lodbcinst
else
ODBC_CFLAGS = `pkg-config odbc --cflags`
ODBC_LIBS = `pkg-config odbc --libs` -lodbcinst
fi
AC_SUBST(ODBC_CFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(ODBC_LIBS)
In the libodbc_lib/Makefile.am:
libodbc_lib_la_CXXFLAGS = -I../../dbinterface \
-DUNICODE \
-DUNIXODBC \
-I#ODBC_CFLAGS#
libodbc_lib_la_LDFLAGS = -L../dbinterface \
-ldbinterface \
#ODBC_LIB#
I regenerated configure, run it successfully and then tried running make.
I got following error:
CXXLD libodbc_lib.la
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find #ODBC_LIB#: No such file or directory
What I did wrong?
EDIT3:
After fixing the missing S, I got following compile commands:
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/igor/dbhandler/Debug/libodbc'
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/igor/dbhandler/libodbc -I.. -I../../dbinterface -DUNICODE -DUNIXODBC -I#IODBC_CFLAGS# -g -O0 -MT libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.Tpo -c -o libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.lo `test -f 'database_odbc.cpp' || echo '/home/igor/dbhandler/libodbc/'`database_odbc.cpp
libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/igor/dbhandler/libodbc -I.. -I../../dbinterface -DUNICODE -DUNIXODBC -I#IODBC_CFLAGS# -g -O0 -MT libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.Tpo -c /home/igor/dbhandler/libodbc/database_odbc.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.o
libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/igor/dbhandler/libodbc -I.. -I../../dbinterface -DUNICODE -DUNIXODBC -I#IODBC_CFLAGS# -g -O0 -MT libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.Tpo -c /home/igor/dbhandler/libodbc/database_odbc.cpp -o libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.o >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .deps/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.Tpo .deps/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.Plo
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -I../../dbinterface -DUNICODE -DUNIXODBC -I#IODBC_CFLAGS# -g -O0 -L../dbinterface -ldbinterface -o libodbc_lib.la -rpath /usr/local/lib libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.lo
libtool: link: g++ -fPIC -DPIC -shared -nostdlib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/../../../../lib64/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/crtbeginS.o .libs/libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.o -L../dbinterface -ldbinterface -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/../../../../lib64 -L/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/../lib64 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/../../.. -lstdc++ -lm -lc -lgcc_s /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/crtendS.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/../../../../lib64/crtn.o -g -O0 -Wl,-soname -Wl,libodbc_lib.so.0 -o .libs/libodbc_lib.so.0.0.0
libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libodbc_lib.so.0" && ln -s "libodbc_lib.so.0.0.0" "libodbc_lib.so.0")
libtool: link: (cd ".libs" && rm -f "libodbc_lib.so" && ln -s "libodbc_lib.so.0.0.0" "libodbc_lib.so")
libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libodbc_lib.a libodbc_lib_la-database_odbc.o
libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libodbc_lib.a
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libodbc_lib.la" && ln -s "../libodbc_lib.la" "libodbc_lib.la" )
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/igor/dbhandler/Debug/libodbc'
I still the variable name there and not their values.
Is it normal?
As UnixODBC upstream does ship and install *.pc files, I would expect that file to be both present and correct and therefore I would ignore any *-config scripts. The pkg-config system is quite well thought out and works even for quite weird cross compilation environments. The *.pc mechanism works well on Linux, on FreeBSD, on OSX, cross-compiling for Windows on Linux, to name a few.
A well-written _config program written in portable shell could do the same by basically reproducing much of the pkg-config logic in portable shell for each and every _config script, hopefully correctly.
However, odbc_config is not a portable shell script. It is a binary executable, i.e. it will regularly break for cross-compiling, as the system you build on will usually not be able to run programs like odbc_config which are built to run on the system you are building for.
And even if the flags from the *.pc files were unsuitable for a very unusual build environment: Using PKG_CHECK_MODULES defines appropriate _CFLAGS and _LIBS variables for the configure script, so even in a very unusual build environments one can always override whatever the *.pc file might contain by calling configure like
../configure ODBC_CFLAGS='-I/weird/stuff -DWEIRD_STRING="moo"' ODBC_LIBS='-L/very/weird/libxyz -lodbc'
So... using odbc_config has no advantages, upstream already provides a odbc.pc file so it is always present, so why not just always use odbc.pc?
So, in configure.ac (if builds without odbc.pc present should fail, otherwise you will have to do some AC_DEFINE and/or AM_CONDITIONAL to conditionally build with or without ODBC support) do
m4_pattern_forbid([PKG_CHECK_MODULES])dnl
PKG_CHECK_MODULES([ODBC], [odbc])
and in any subdirectory (what you call "subproject") Makefile.am or Makefile-files where you need to link somehting against libodbc, put, depending on whether you are building an executable
bin_PROGRAMS += foobar
[…]
foobar_CPPFLAGS += $(ODBC_CFLAGS)
foobar_LDADD += $(ODBC_LIBS)
or a (libtool) library
lib_LTLIBRARIES += libfoo.la
[…]
libfoo_la_CPPFLAGS += $(ODBC_CFLAGS)
libfoo_la_LIBADD += $(ODBC_LIBS)
That should work for all native and cross-compile builds in properly set up build environments, and people can still override odbc_CFLAGS and odbc_LIBS in case of problems.
Of course, you can always AC_CHECK_PROG or AC_PATH_PROG or AC_CHECK_TOOL or AC_PATH_TOOL together with an AC_ARG_VAR for the odbc_config program and then define and AC_SUBST an _CFLAGS and _LIBS variable set to the output of $ODBC_CONFIG --cflags and $ODBC_CONFIG --libs, respectively, and then then use the _CFLAGS and _LIBS vars in Makefile.am/Makefile-files as above.
However, that is a lot of code to write, and with a lot of special cases to consider, and if you have to ask about how to do this you will probably get a lot more wrong than if you just just use PKG_CHECK_MODULES.
You can always add something later if the PKG_CHECK_MODULES route actually does not work for a use case and which cannot be fixed within the pkg-config framework. Until that time (if it ever happens), I would recommend to just use the simple PKG_CHECK_MODULES method and probably be done.
So, I need to add a test in configure.ac to check for odbc_config script presence and pass it along to one of the so files generation
Autoconf has AC_PATH_PROG() for checking for a program in the executable search path. You would of course use AC_SUBST() to define one or more output variables by which to convey the results to the generated makefiles.
But no, coming back around to my comment on the answer to one of your previous questions, what you ought to do is not have configure forward information about the executable, but rather for it to determine the needed flags itself and forward them, via one or more output variables. If you continue to use odbc_config, at least conditionally, then that means having configure run it and capture the output. You should not inject shell command substitutions into your compilation commands.
And if you substitute a different mechanism, whether conditionally or exclusively, then similarly for that. (That's what your other answer describes with respect to pkg-config.)

Problem with autoconf not making gcc with -Wall warnings

I have a simple project with a simple configure.ac script:
AC_INIT(...)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror foreign])
AC_PROG_CC
AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
AC_CONFIG_FILES(...)
AC_OUTPUT
using GNU Autoconf version 2.69 (OpenSUSE Linux with gcc 9.2.1), but gcc is being called with no warning flags:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT aprog.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/aprog.Tpo -c -o aprog.o aprog.c
mv ...
gcc -g -O2 -o aprog aprog.o -lgmp
In particular, I found -Wformat not working. Shouldn't -Wall include -Wformat? And shouldn't all warnings appear on the make line? If I run gcc line directly with -Wformat the warning shows in compile but it doesn't when I run autoconf, configure and make.
What I'm doing wrong?
The -Wall flag in the AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(...) invocation refers to warnings from automake and related tools like aclocal, not to compiler warnings. You will see these warnings when you are running autoreconf.
Note that while you can also add -Werror to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(...) to make your autoreconf run fail on warnings, many common macros (like those shipped with gettext or libtool) will still use deprecated macros which generates a warning, so -Werror means you cannot use this standard set of tools, so -Werror is not very useful in many cases.
If you want to add compiler options, there are a third party macros (e.g. AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG) which test whether the compiler recognizes a given compile option and you can then add them to some variable and use that in places. That is a different stackoverflow question, though.

MinGW compilation "file not recognized: File format not recognized"

I'm trying to compile a c++ program and I am having some issues. In particular, when I use x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc as my compiler, it complains half way through my compilation saying "tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver.cpp.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized".
Here is my makefile (not mine, I'm trying to adapt this makefile to a cygwin environment) https://pastebin.com/vgnVYJUL
Here is the console output when I run make:
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -o tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver.cpp.o src/libfastms/solver/solver.cpp -Wall -O3 -m64 -Isrc/libfastms -DDISABLE_OPENMP -DDISABLE_OPENCV -DDISABLE_CUDA
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -o tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver_base.cpp.o src/libfastms/solver/solver_base.cpp -Wall -O3 -m64 -Isrc/libfastms -DDISABLE_OPENMP -DDISABLE_OPENCV -DDISABLE_CUDA
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -o tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver_host.cpp.o src/libfastms/solver/solver_host.cpp -Wall -O3 -m64 -Isrc/libfastms -DDISABLE_OPENMP -DDISABLE_OPENCV -DDISABLE_CUDA
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -o tmp/src/libfastms/util/has_cuda.cpp.o src/libfastms/util/has_cuda.cpp -Wall -O3 -m64 -Isrc/libfastms -DDISABLE_OPENMP -DDISABLE_OPENCV -DDISABLE_CUDA
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -c -o tmp/src/libfastms/util/image_mat.cpp.o src/libfastms/util/image_mat.cpp -Wall -O3 -m64 -Isrc/libfastms -DDISABLE_OPENMP -DDISABLE_OPENCV -DDISABLE_CUDA
ld -r -o tmp/src/libfastms/libfastms.o tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver.cpp.o tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver_base.cpp.o tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver_host.cpp.o tmp/src/libfastms/util/has_cuda.cpp.o tmp/src/libfastms/util/image_mat.cpp.o
tmp/src/libfastms/solver/solver.cpp.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
Makefile:167: recipe for target 'tmp/src/libfastms/libfastms.o' failed
make: *** [tmp/src/libfastms/libfastms.o] Error 1
Some other notes:
I don't have this problem when I compile with g++ (only seems to be minGW)
A common solution to this problem is to clean the directory of residual object files. This does not work.
Another common reason for this is trying to compile .h files. Obviously I am not doing this.
Thanks in advance.
You are compiling your object files with a 64-bit compiler driver, w64-mingw32-gcc,
and with -m64 you are explicitly directing it to generate 64-bit code (unnecessarily,
as that is its default). But you are linking with a 32-bit linker that does not
understand 64-bit object files.
This is happening because in your makefile you are, unusually, invoking ld
explicitly for your incremental solver linkage:
COMMAND_LINK_SOLVER=ld -r -o $# $^
rather than delegating linkage to your compiler driver in the usual way, and
a 32-bit ld from a different toolchain is being found in your PATH before
the 64-bit one belonging to your mingw-w64 toolchain.
To avoid this, invoke the linker via the compiler driver as normal, which for your
solver linkage means:
COMMAND_LINK_SOLVER=$(GXX) -Wl,-r -o $# $^
You can depend on w64-mingw32-gcc to invoke the ld that was installed with it.
There is no need to correct your main linkage as it is already done the right way.

Negate previous -D[efine] flag for GCC

Under GNUStep on Arch Linux, I'm running into an interesting error on a fresh install.
Using my build system I run
gcc `gnustep-config --debug-flags` [other command line args]
in order to build up the command line per the operating system's necessary flags.
This works fine under Ubuntu, but on Arch Linux I'm getting a rather random error:
/usr/include/features.h:328:4: error: #warning _FORTIFY_SOURCE requires compiling with optimization (-O) [-Werror=cpp]
Well, gnustep-config --debug-flags spits out the following:
-MMD -MP -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -DGNUSTEP -DGNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY=1 -DGNU_GUI_LIBRARY=1 -DGNU_RUNTIME=1 -DGNUSTEP_BASE_LIBRARY=1 -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -fPIC -g -DDEBUG -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -DGSWARN -DGSDIAGNOSE -Wno-import -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fgnu-runtime -fconstant-string-class=NSConstantString -fexec-charset=UTF-8 -I. -I/home/qix/GNUstep/Library/Headers -I/usr/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.1/include/ -I/usr/lib/libffi-3.1/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1
As well, I wish not to have optimizations on my debug builds (and later on I even override GNUStep's -g parameter to -g2).
Is there a way to explicitly undefine -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE later on in the command line, after the call to gnustep-config?
For example, something like
gcc `gnustep-config --debug-flags` -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE ...
where the -U undefines the previously defined macro?
Something to mention; I have -Werror enabled on purpose, and I'd like to keep it.
For now, using sed to work around this works. It appears this is a known issue with _FORTIFY_SOURCE causing issues, and there isn't a straightforward fix.
`gnustep-config --debug-flags | sed 's/-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2//g'`

clang compiler warnings Mac OS X

When I compile my program I get compiler warnings. I have been trying to fix them for a while now.
This is how I compile:
c++ -MM -MF obj/src/prog.d -MP -MT obj/src/prog.o -Wall -Wextra -c -g -Iinc src/prog.cpp
This is the warning I get:
clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-MF obj/src/prog.d'
I used to compile it without warnings before apple switched to clang. right now c++ is just a symbolic link to clang.
I was wondering if smbd had the same kind of issue?
Any ideas?
Thanks
hmm... it seems like it is a bug(or feature): link.
But I think I found a work-around, instead of using MF to specify the output file, I just redirect it to the file like this:
c++ -MM > obj/src/prog.d -MP -MT obj/src/prog.o -Wall -Wextra -c -g -Iinc src/prog.cpp

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