Hello,

While looking at some uClibc code, I stumbled across the following snippet in Rules.mak:

UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := ld-uClibc ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := 32 ifneq ($(findstring $(TARGET_ARCH) , hppa64 ia64 powerpc64 s390x sparc64 x86_64 kvx ),) UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := ld64-uClibc ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := 64 else ifeq ($(CONFIG_MIPS_N64_ABI),y) UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := ld64-uClibc ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := 64 endif endif

I was surprised not to see aarch64 in the list of 64-bit architectures here. Turns out that the situation is not that simple in fact. Indeed, gcc does not expect all 64-bit architecture to have their dynamic loader called ld64-uClibc. For aarch64 specifically, it indeed assumes the dynamic loader is called ld-uClibc, which explains why it is working today.

However, it means that ARCH_NATIVE_BIT is defined to 32 on aarch64, which is obviously (?) wrong.

But turns out that ARCH_NATIVE_BIT is only used in utils/porting.h to define __WORDSIZE and __WORDSIZE is only used in utils/ldd.c.

So to me, it seems like this would gain in being clarified. Something like (completely untested):

diff --git a/Rules.mak b/Rules.mak index 3fb64c728..a0b012d7f 100644 --- a/Rules.mak +++ b/Rules.mak @@ -142,17 +142,8 @@ export MAJOR_VERSION MINOR_VERSION SUBLEVEL VERSION ABI_VERSION LC_ALL LIBC := libc SHARED_LIBNAME := $(LIBC).so.$(ABI_VERSION)

-UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := ld-uClibc -ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := 32 -ifneq ($(findstring $(TARGET_ARCH) , hppa64 ia64 powerpc64 s390x sparc64 x86_64 kvx ),) -UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := ld64-uClibc -ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := 64 -else -ifeq ($(CONFIG_MIPS_N64_ABI),y) -UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := ld64-uClibc -ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := 64 -endif -endif +UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME := $(call qstrip,$(TARGET_LDSO_NAME)) +ARCH_NATIVE_BIT := $(call qstrip,$(TARGET_ARCH_BITS))

UCLIBC_LDSO := $(UCLIBC_LDSO_NAME).so.$(ABI_VERSION) NONSHARED_LIBNAME := uclibc_nonshared.a diff --git a/extra/Configs/Config.in b/extra/Configs/Config.in index a49278b30..e6369bd82 100644 --- a/extra/Configs/Config.in +++ b/extra/Configs/Config.in @@ -145,6 +145,26 @@ config TARGET_xtensa

endchoice

+config TARGET_LDSO_NAME + string + default "ld64-uClibc" if TARGET_ia64 + default "ld64-uClibc" if TARGET_powerpc64 + default "ld64-uClibc" if TARGET_sparc64 + default "ld64-uClibc" if TARGET_x86_64 + default "ld64-uClibc" if TARGET_kvx + default "ld64-uClibc" if CONFIG_MIPS_N64_ABI + default "ld-uClibc" + +config TARGET_ARCH_BITS + int + default 64 if TARGET_aarch64 + default 64 if TARGET_ia64 + default 64 if TARGET_powerpc64 + default 64 if TARGET_sparc64 + default 64 if TARGET_x86_64 + default 64 if TARGET_kvx + default 64 if CONFIG_MIPS_N64_ABI + default 32

menu "Target Architecture Features and Options"

Best regards,

Thomas Petazzoni