Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:26:29 -0500

On 6/3/11 10:05 AM, Chen Xue wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> I will install the EPICS Server under vxWorks version 5.4.2 (for
> Motorola MVME 5100). I downloaded the cross-compiler file,
> cross-gcc-2.9.6.tar.gz, for linux from
> http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/dht/. Untar it and configured
> WIND_BASE in mkCrossGCC file. When I run ./mkCrossGCC CPU=ppc, I
> got the following error message. Could someone help me?
> 
> Fixing /root/cross-compiler-build-dir/obj-ppc/cpp/gcc/Makefile
> to add CPU
> cd /root/cross-compiler-build-dir/obj-ppc/cpp/gcc ; mv Makefile
> Makefile.orig ;\
>     sed 's/^CROSS=/CROSS=-DCPU=PPC603 /' <Makefile.orig >Makefile
> ========= Building gas.config
> mkdir -p /root/cross-compiler-build-dir/obj-ppc/gas
> cd /root/cross-compiler-build-dir/obj-ppc/gas ;\
>     /home/chen/Cross-Compiler/host/src/gnu.ppc/gas/configure
> --with-cpu=603 --prefix=/home/chen/Cross-Compiler/host/x86-linux
> --target=powerpc-wrs-vxworks --host=i386-redhat-linux
> --with-headers=/home/chen/Cross-Compiler/target/h
> -enable-bfd-assembler
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for Cygwin environment... (cached) no
> checking for mingw32 environment... (cached) no
> checking host system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking target system type... powerpc-wrs-vxworks
> checking build system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for POSIXized ISC... no
> checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached)
> /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... found
> checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
> checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files...
> (cached) -r
> checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
> checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
> checking how to recognise dependant libraries... (cached) pass_all
> checking for object suffix... (cached) o
> checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
> checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> checking for strip... (cached) strip
> loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
> checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... (cached) no
> checking for objdir... .libs
> checking for gcc option to produce PIC...  -fPIC -DPIC
> checking if gcc PIC flag  -fPIC -DPIC works... (cached) yes
> checking if gcc static flag -static works... (cached) yes
> checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
> checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... no
> checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared
> libraries... yes
> checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
> checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
> checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
> checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
> checking whether to build static libraries... yes
> creating libtool
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a
> cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
> checking for bison... no
> checking for byacc... no
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
> checking for flex... no
> checking for lex... no
> /home/chen/Cross-Compiler/host/src/gnu.ppc/gas/configure: 3437:
> flex: not found
> checking for flex... lex
> checking for yywrap in -ll... no
> checking lex output file root...
> /home/chen/Cross-Compiler/host/src/gnu.ppc/gas/configure: 1:
> lex: not found
> configure: error: cannot find output from lex; giving up
> make: *** [gas.config] Error 1

Hi, Chen.

It looks like perhaps you don't have bison and flex installed?

Are the binaries found when you type the following in a Bourne
shell?

$ which bison
$ which flex

On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, there are packages named bison and flex
that would likely provide what you need.

Lewis

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System