Re: cross-compilers

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Thu Apr 09 2009 - 09:00:48 EST


On Wed, 2009-04-08 11:33:32 -0600, Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx> 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.

Is anybody building GCC trunk for the targets on a daily basis? I do
build vax-linux (kernel-only) cross compilers quite often and the
build script could probably also handle other targets.

MfG, JBG

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