From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:29:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net ([IPv6:::ffff:204.127.202.59]:47542 "EHLO sccrmhc14.comcast.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 04:28:54 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (pcp0011842295pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net[69.251.97.45]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20050625032800014004f1pse>; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 03:28:00 +0000 Message-ID: <42BCD015.5030803@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:31:33 -0400 From: Kumba User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prashant Viswanathan CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: glibc based toolchain for mips References: <5375D9FB1CC3994D9DCBC47C344EEB5905FA4351@miles.echelon.echcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <5375D9FB1CC3994D9DCBC47C344EEB5905FA4351@miles.echelon.echcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8190 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: kumba@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Prashant Viswanathan wrote: > > Thanks. But what I am really looking for is to cross-compile on a Linux i386 > host. I think the SDE from MIPS can be customized to do this. But I am not > sure on how to proceed. Perhaps somebody can point me in the right > direction... If you have an x86 box running Gentoo, there's the `sys-devel/crossdev` package for generating a wide variety of cross-compilers. If you're running another distribution, you'll want to check out Dan Kegel's `crosstool` package at: http://kegel.com/crosstool/ --Kumba -- Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond