Bug 85344 – emerge openssl-0.9.7e fails to use cross compiler

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Mike Rapoport 2005-03-15 07:04:30 UTC]

I try to emerge openssl using cross-compiler as follows:
> ARCH=ppc CFLAGS="-O2" CXXFLAGS="-O2" USE="-userlocales -perl -pam -gdbm -berkdb" CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu  CHOST=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu ROOT=/home/ppc_root/ ebuild dev-libs/openssl
and the native gcc compiler was used instead of powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc

[Comment 1 Mike Rapoport 2005-03-15 07:06:43 UTC]

Created attachment 53523 [details]
emerge info output

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-03-15 08:54:04 UTC]

openssl is known to not cross-compile and to fail pretty badly

the configure detection scripts utilize tools like `uname` to figure out the build system

[Comment 3 Tim Dodge 2005-05-03 13:56:13 UTC]

openssl-0.9.7e-r1 seems to pick the right compiler for me (arm-xscale-linux-uclibc-gcc). But then it chokes on the assembly code in crypto/md5/asm.

I get error messages like so:

arm-xscale-linux-uclibc-gcc -c -I.. -I../.. -I../../include -fPIC -DOPENSSL_THREADS -D_REENTRANT -DDSO_DLFCN -DHAVE_DLFCN_H -DOPENSSL_NO_KRB5 -DL_ENDIAN -DTERMIO    -Wall -Os -pipe -march=armv5te -mtune=xscale -Wa,--noexecstack -DSHA1_ASM -DMD5_ASM -DRMD160_ASM  -o asm/mx86-elf.o asm/mx86-elf.s
asm/mx86-elf.s: Assembler messages:
asm/mx86-elf.s:11: Error: alignment too large: 15 assumed
asm/mx86-elf.s:13: Error: unrecognized symbol type ""
asm/mx86-elf.s:15: Error: bad instruction `pushl %esi'
asm/mx86-elf.s:16: Error: bad instruction `pushl %edi'

[Comment 4 emerald 2005-05-08 12:32:04 UTC]

if you really need to cross compile, create a fake uname
i compiled gentoo in chroot on a amd64 for a k6-2, in such case it works just fine

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-05-08 23:37:41 UTC]

please sync up and try out 0.9.7g and see if it works any better

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-05-21 18:13:42 UTC]

works for me