From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:03:31 +0000 Subject: Re: cross-compilers Message-Id: <20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> List-Id: References: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alex Chiang Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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. Good Luck, Robin On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > I've been using your cross-compilers here: > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/ > > for a long time now, but they're starting to suffer from a bit of > neglect. > > For example, the ia64 bundle, which used gcc 3.4.5 is now finally > too old to build 2.6.30-rc1, because of a gcc bug related to > labels. > > Some of the newer bundles which use gcc 4.1.0 don't work because > of a check in: > > include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h > > So my question is, do you still use those tools hosted on > kernel.org or do you have a new solution these days? > > If you have a new solution, I'd like to hear it, because I found > those cross-compilers pretty useful, as I'm sure others did. > > I spent most of yesterday fiddling about and managed to build an > x86_64 host, ia64 target, gcc 4.2.3, glibc 2.3.6 bundle, and it > all seems to work. > > Is this something you're interested in? I could send you my > tarball (and slowly work on some of the other archs). > > If so, what were the crosstool build options you used? I'm > specifically wondering about: > > - should I am for lowest common denominator host or are > you ok with x86_64 host > > - did you statically link the toolchain? or is it > dynamically linked? > > Thanks. > > /ac > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html