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 f6AGegk30794 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:40:42 -0700 Received: from pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f6AGeeV30790 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:40:41 -0700 Received: from pacbell.net ([63.194.214.47]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GG9002D6NNLJM@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net> for linux-mips@oss.sgi.com; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:40:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:39:02 -0700 From: Pete Popov Subject: Re: MIPS Cross Compiler Tools To: Marc Karasek Cc: "'linux-mips@oss.sgi.com'" Reply-to: ppopov@pacbell.net Message-id: <3B4B2FA6.4080508@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 References: <25369470B6F0D41194820002B328BDD27D22@ATLOPS> Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Marc Karasek wrote: > I had a question about the cross compiler tools for MIPS, specifically > glibc. I d/l the rpms from oss.sgi.com, but they are only binutils, and > the compiler (C, C++). > > Are most people building glibc against these or are you building the tools > completely from scratch? As glibc is needed to compile anything else other > than the kernel. Friday or Monday MontaVista should have the HHL2.0 Journeyman mips release on the ftp site which will include the userland apps, cross AND native tools, etc. The tools and glibc are very up to date. I would suggest checking Monday for the release and using that instead of building your own. Pete