From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fADEmfN15068 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 06:48:41 -0800 Received: from mail.ivivity.com (user-vc8ftn3.biz.mindspring.com [216.135.246.227]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fADEmX015065 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 06:48:34 -0800 Received: from [192.168.1.179] (192.168.1.179 [192.168.1.179]) by mail.ivivity.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id QMJCN57D; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:48:20 -0500 Subject: Re: BE Toolchain From: Marc Karasek To: Dan Temple Cc: Linux MIPS In-Reply-To: <3BE2A852.AFF0D905@mips.com> References: <1004708261.31067.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3BE2A852.AFF0D905@mips.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.16.99+cvs.2001.10.18.15.19 (Preview Release) Date: 13 Nov 2001 09:49:20 -0500 Message-Id: <1005662974.10352.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I have one question: I did not know that RH had a MIPS dist for 7.1. Is this something MIPS has done from the RH sources? Or is RH planning on supporting MIPS now? On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 09:06, Dan Temple wrote: > Marc Karasek wrote: > > > > Has anyone got the toolchain (binutils, gcc, glibc) to compile under > > BE? I followed the instructions at Bradley D. LaRonde has put together > > and got the LE to work w/o a prolem. I then proceeded to try the BE. > > Binutils compiled ok, gcc says that mipseb-linux is not a valid target. > > Looking in config.sub I saw a mips-linux, is this the BE option? > > If you can wait a day, here's what we use - which is compilable both BE and LE: > > We are going to release a complete RH7.1/MIPS installation image for the Atlas/Malta board on our FTP site, identical to what we use in MIPS engineering.All of our compiles for Linux/MIPS (except the kernel, which is probably irrelevant here) are done natively on Malta boards running Linux. We are using the compiler from the RedHat 7.1/MIPS Linux distribution. > > The toolchains on this distribution are (all commands run natively on > the installation on a Malta board): > > > uname -a > Linux copmld07.mips.com 2.4.3-MIPS-01.02 > > > gcc -v > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-redhat-linux/2.96/specs > gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-99.1) > > > rpm -qf /usr/bin/ld > binutils-2.11.92.0.10-1 > > > rpm -qa | grep glibc > glibc-2.2.4-19.4 > glibc-common-2.2.4-19.4 > glibc-devel-2.2.4-19.4 > glibc-profile-2.2.4-19.4 > > Dan Temple > MIPS Denmark -- /************************* Marc Karasek Sr. Firmware Engineer iVivity Inc. marc_karasek@ivivity.com (770) 986-8925 (770) 986-8926 Fax *************************/