trouble building a stand alone toolchian

[Char-Aznable]

I'm new to easybuild. I'm trying to build eb foss-2019a.eb --robot right after installing easybuild. However, I hit easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks#1350 where I'm stuck. If I understand it correctly, the tools in foss-2019a built by easybuild depends on the libraries provided by the OS -- is this the case? If not, what is the way to build a stand alone toolchain, including gcc, binutils, glibc, ...?

[akesandgren]

Exactly what do you mean by getting stuck?

The above (#1350) is not a problem, it's the way things are supposed to be.

EB builds a small set of packages that depends on the system compiler and libraries, which are then used to build the GCCcore compiler, the rest does not depend on system libraries
(Well libc is not built by EB)

[boegel]

@Char-Aznable Can you clarify which problem/errors you are hitting exactly?

[Char-Aznable]

I got the error when building foss-2019a:

build failed (first 300 chars): zlib is not statically linked in /home/aznb/easybuild/software/binutils/2.31.1-GCCcore-8.2.0/bin/addr2line

[akesandgren]

Can you upload the complete build log somewhere?
And just building binutils-2.31.1-GCCcore-8.2.0.eb should be enough to show the problem.

[boegel]

@Char-Aznable easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks#1350 was fixed last May (in EasyBuild v3.9.1).

Please try again with a more recent version of EasyBuild. If the problem persists, please let us know