buildgcc: Add option to bootstrap a host gcc

Hardware / Coreboot - Nico Huber [secunet.com] - 5 July 2016 04:52 UTC

Bootstrapping gcc is the recommended way if your host gcc's version doesn't match the gcc version you're going to build. While a build with an outdated host gcc usually succeeds, an outdated gnat seems to be a bigger issue.

v3: Some library controversy: gcc likes the libraries it ships with most but we don't want to install shared libraries. So we build them static --disable-shared) and install only the minimum (libgcc, libada, libstdc++). However, as the code of these libraries might be used to build a shared library we have to compile them with `-fPIC`.

v4: o Updated getopt strings. o The workaround for clang (-fbracket-depth=1024) isn't needed for bootstrapping and also breaks the build, as clang is only used for the first stage in that case and gcc doesn't know that option.

So far build tested with `make BUILDGCC_OPTIONS="-b -l c,ada"` on o Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" (i386) o Debian 8 "Jessie" (x86_64) (building python (-S) works too) o current Arch Linux (x86_64) o FreeBSD 10.3 (x86_64) (with gcc-aux package)

and with clang host compiler, thus C only: `make BUILDGCC_OPTIONS="-b"` on o Debian 8 "Jessie" (x86_64) o FreeBSD 10.3 (x86_64)

v5: Rebased after toolchain updates to GCC 5.3.0 etc.

Build tested with `make BUILDGCC_OPTIONS="-b -l c,ada"` on o Debian 8 "Jessie" (x86_64)

Change-Id: Icb47d3e9dbafc55737fbc3ce62a084fb9d5f359a

234d246 buildgcc: Add option to bootstrap a host gcc
util/crossgcc/buildgcc | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Upstream: review.coreboot.org

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