Re: cross-compilers

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 13:37:39 EST


Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600 Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> * Robin Holt <holt@xxxxxxx>:
>>>> Don't know if this answers your problem, but I use the tools from
>>>> emdebian and they do not suffer from the problems you list below.
>>> Wow, this seems _much_ simpler. Once you get the toolchain
>>> installed, all you have to do is set ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
>>> appropriately?
>>>
>>> I guess the question remains for Andrew. Since I pretty much did
>>> all the work needed to update his cross-compiler repo, is there
>>> still value in it?
>> We would benefit very much from having someone who actually maintains a
>> suite of cross-compilers for kernel developers.
>
> Ok, I'll work with Vegard on this.
>
> Thanks.

Thank you. We should be able to have these tools
without using any specific $distro.

--
~Randy
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