Re: cross-compilers

Rob Landley
2009-04-09T00:20:58Z

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 00:54:57 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600 Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> > * Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>:
> > > 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.

I already maintain cross compilers for my own use and the uClibc.org guys,
along with little root filesystems and system images bootable under qemu:

http://uclibc.org/downloads/binaries

We're about to start doing nightly builds based on uClibc snapshots, I could
easily get our server to do similar nightly builds based on the git version
kernel headers and upload 'em to
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/landley/ if there's any interest...

Rob
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