core: add BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER option

Some bootloaders (such as Grub) need to be built for x86 (i.e IA32)
even if the target architecture is x86-64. However, when the target
architecture is x86-64, the cross-compiler generated by Buildroot is
not able to generate 32 bits code.

To solve this, we will rely on the host compiler being a x86 + x86-64
compiler. Therefore, this commit introduces the
BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER option, which tells the dependency
checking logic to verify that the host compiler is indeed capable of
building x86 32 bits code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index b563f6096a..32b8feac53 100755
--- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -186,6 +186,15 @@ if grep -q ^BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_LIBS=y $BUILDROOT_CONFIG ; then
     fi
 fi
 
+if grep -q ^BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER=y $BUILDROOT_CONFIG ; then
+    if ! echo "int main(void) {}" | gcc -m32 -x c - ; then
+	/bin/echo -e "\nYour Buildroot configuration needs a compiler capable of building 32 bits binaries."
+	/bin/echo -e "If you're running a Debian/Ubuntu distribution, install the gcc-multilib package."
+	/bin/echo -e "For other distributions, refer to their documentation."
+	exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
 # Check that the Perl installation is complete enough to build
 # host-autoconf.
 if ! perl  -e "require Data::Dumper" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then