flavioc/cross-hurd

Scripts for cross-compiling and creating an Hurd system

cross-hurd's Issues

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

config.log

Initial setup: no root password asked, passwd complains

In the initial setup script, passwd is called for entering a root password (at least I think the script tries to do this). However, the setup script doesn't wait and just continues. passwd complains about a too short password, but accepts what's being done at that stage. The setup continues and reboots in the new system. At the end the login prompt is given and one can login as root with an empty password.

I don't think the script works here as intended, but I can be mistaken.

Expected solution: setup script waits for the user to enter a root password and passwd can set that. After that the setup script continues.

$SYS_ROOT for /tools doesn't get used for some parts

There are several occurrences of /tools in the bootstrap.sh script instead of the variable $SYS_ROOT from vars.sh

bootstrap.sh: fatal error: pthread.h: No such file or directory

i586-pc-gnu-gcc -B/cross-tools/bin/ setup-thread.c -c -std=gnu11 -fgnu89-inline  -O2 -Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -frounding-math -g -Wno-parentheses -Wstrict-prototypes -Wold-style-definition     -ftls-model=initial-exec      -I../include -I/mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/mach  -I/mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386  -I../sysdeps/mach/hurd/i386  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/mach/hurd  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/hurd  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/pthread  -I../sysdeps/pthread  -I../sysdeps/mach/hurd  -I../sysdeps/gnu  -I../sysdeps/unix/bsd  -I../sysdeps/unix/inet  -I../sysdeps/mach/i386  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/mach  -I../sysdeps/mach  -I../sysdeps/i386/i586  -I../sysdeps/i386/fpu  -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu/include -I../sysdeps/x86/fpu  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/i386  -I../sysdeps/i386  -I../sysdeps/x86  -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64  -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32  -I../sysdeps/unix  -I../sysdeps/posix  -I../libpthread/sysdeps/posix  -I../sysdeps/ieee754  -I../sysdeps/generic  -I../libpthread -I../hurd -I/mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/hurd/ -I../mach -I/mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/mach/ -I.. -I../libio -I. -nostdinc -isystem /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/cross-tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i586-pc-gnu/6.4.0/include -isystem /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/cross-tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i586-pc-gnu/6.4.0/include-fixed -isystem /tools/include  -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/libc-modules.h -DMODULE_NAME=libc -include ../include/libc-symbols.h       -o /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/mach/setup-thread.o -MD -MP -MF /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/mach/setup-thread.o.dt -MT /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/mach/setup-thread.o
In file included from ../libpthread/sysdeps/pthread/libc-lockP.h:22:0,
                 from ../sysdeps/mach/libc-lock.h:227,
                 from ../include/link.h:46,
                 from ../include/dlfcn.h:4,
                 from ../sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h:32,
                 from ../sysdeps/i386/ldsodefs.h:39,
                 from ../sysdeps/gnu/ldsodefs.h:46,
                 from setup-thread.c:22:
../include/pthread.h:1:26: fatal error: pthread.h: No such file or directory
 #include_next <pthread.h>
                          ^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [../o-iterator.mk:9: /mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc.first_obj/mach/setup-thread.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc/mach'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:214: mach/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/mnt/store/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd/tmp/src/glibc'
make: *** [Makefile:9: all] Error 2

Cannot log in

On first boot I'm asked for a password which I enter.

After the reboot, entering the correct password for root yields:

"login: Authentication Failure: Operation not permitted"

Entering a wrong password yields:

"login: Invalid Password"

Running without root

The bootstrap stage works fine without root when you prepend these 3 lines with sudo.

The compile stage fails at the install_gnumach section because the --exec-prefix= instruction tells gnumach to install to /boot (specifically $exec_prefix/boot/gnumach gets created).
The next part is install_hurd where the Makefiles try to run chown /tools/libexec/_inst.12345_ but fails.

List of dependencies

A full list of dependencies would be nice.

very incomplete list:
grub-pc-bin kpartx

Boot stuck at Loading Hurd...

I've followed the instructions in the README, but the boot appears to be stuck. grub comes up, and Mach starts, but then it remains on the following output:

  Booting `GNU'      
                     
Loading GNU Mach     
Loading the Hurd ... 

Any Idea what I could try to debug this?

Compiling first glibc fails the first time

Yes.
There is a small problem during bootstrap (same as #1 (comment)). However, if you edit the bootstrap.sh script to only run compile_first_glibc && compile_full_gcc && compile_second_glibc, everything will magically compile. I'm still trying to figure out why it does not compile on the first attempt.

After that, it should be a smooth ride.

error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’

gentoolaptop /home/nathan/mount/NFS/Data/VM/hurd/crosshurd/cross-hurd # bash bootstrap.sh

• Root is /cross-tools
• Cross-compiling on x86_64-cross-linux-gnu to i586-pc-gnu
• Cross compiling binutils
  configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
  If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
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  make[1]: Warning: File 'Makefile' has modification time 35 s in the future
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  if [ x"" != x ] && [ ! -d pic ]; then
  mkdir pic;
  else true; fi
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  mkdir noasan;
  else true; fi
  touch stamp-noasandir
  if [ x"" != x ]; then
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  else true; fi
  if [ x"" != x ]; then
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  else true; fi
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  if [ x"" != x ]; then
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  else true; fi
  if [ x"" != x ]; then
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  else true; fi
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  start_spec_args = strchr (*mangled, '<');
  ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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  make[1]: *** [Makefile:8049: all-libiberty] Error 2
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  make: *** [Makefile:851: all] Error 2

Passing -enable-kvm to qemu causes reboots.

Thank you for the recent updates, it finally caused me to build and boot the image into a workable system. I however found a few problems, this being one of them.

I have also a Debian Hurd image, that I load through qemu. However if I pass the same command line to load the cross-hurd image it causes a boot loop. First mach is loaded and after that it tries to load the Hurd, but fails without any output and causes it to reboot qemu (qemu bios is reinitialized). Removing the -enable-kvm flag from the command line solves this issue, but results in a slower system.

Expected solution: being able to use '-enable-kvm' to load the image.