From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:36:41 +0000 Subject: Re: cross-compilers Message-Id: <49DCE0A9.5020308@oracle.com> List-Id: References: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090407225457.86f8a458.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090408173332.GB20187@ldl.fc.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090408173332.GB20187@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 , Robin Holt , linux-kernel , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Alex Chiang wrote: > * Andrew Morton : >> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600 Alex Chiang wrote: >> >>> * Robin Holt : >>>> 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