Support for aarch64/arm64

[josefwegner]

Hi,

I tried to build the ppc-amigaos-gcc crosscompiler on my Raspberry Pi running Raspberry OS (Debian Bullseye aarch64). But it seems that at least for the binutils config.guess and/or config.sub are too old:

...
touch includes-done
make -C ../binutils-build SRC_DIR=../binutils/repo PREFIX=/tmp/adtools/native-build/root-cross CROSS_BUILD_DIR=/tmp/adtools/native-build/binutils-cross-build-2.23.2
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/adtools/binutils-build'
mkdir -p /tmp/adtools/native-build/binutils-cross-build-2.23.2
cd /tmp/adtools/native-build/binutils-cross-build-2.23.2; CFLAGS="-Wno-switch -Wno-unused" /tmp/adtools/binutils/repo/configure \
                                                                --enable-plugins \
                                                                --target=ppc-amigaos \
                                                                --prefix=/tmp/adtools/native-build/root-cross
checking build system type... /tmp/adtools/binutils/repo/config.guess: unable to guess system type

This script, last modified 2011-06-03, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
and
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD

If the version you run (/tmp/adtools/binutils/repo/config.guess) is already up to date, please
send the following data and any information you think might be
pertinent to <[email protected]> in order to provide the needed
information to handle your system.

config.guess timestamp = 2011-06-03

uname -m = aarch64
uname -r = 5.15.32-v8+
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1538 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 31 19:40:39 BST 2022

/usr/bin/uname -p =
/bin/uname -X     =

hostinfo               =
/bin/universe          =
/usr/bin/arch -k       =
/bin/arch              =
/usr/bin/oslevel       =
/usr/convex/getsysinfo =

UNAME_MACHINE = aarch64
UNAME_RELEASE = 5.15.32-v8+
UNAME_SYSTEM  = Linux
UNAME_VERSION = #1538 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 31 19:40:39 BST 2022
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/adtools/binutils-build'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:20: cross] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/tmp/adtools/native-build'
make: *** [makefile:92: binutils-cross-build-done-2.23.2] Error 2
The command '/bin/sh -c make -C native-build' returned a non-zero code: 2

This is my Dockerfile for building:

FROM debian:bullseye-slim

RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
RUN apt-get -y install libgmp-dev libmpc-dev libmpfr-dev lhasa git build-essential python2.7 wget texinfo texi2html flex bison
RUN git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
RUN git config --global user.name "Josef Wegner"
RUN git clone https://github.com/sba1/adtools.git /tmp/adtools
WORKDIR /tmp/adtools
RUN git submodule init && git submodule update && bin/gild clone && bin/gild checkout binutils 2.23.2 && bin/gild checkout coreutils 5.2 && bin/gild checkout gcc 8
ADD config.guess /tmp/adtools/binutils/repo/
ADD config.sub /tmp/adtools/binutils/repo/
RUN make -C native-build gcc-cross CROSS_PREFIX=/opt/adtools -j4

Would it make sense to add patches with newer config.guess and config.sub? Or would this break other stuff?

[sba1]

You can submit patches, but of course, they should not break other stuff.

[josefwegner]

I tested this patch on Debian Bullseye ARM64 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (ARM64/WSL2). It worked fine on both systems.