Latest GCC/GLIBC working combo for a Linux 2.4.x kernel?

Latest GCC/GLIBC working combo for a Linux 2.4.x kernel?

[Sasvata Chatterjee]

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Hi!

We are using a RHEL/386 machine to cross-compile for Debian/PowerPC (8260)
target, a few year old embedded system that we inherited.  The kernel is
2.4.9. Using crosstools, and following Dan Kegel's notes, the combo we have
is gcc-2.95-3/glibc-2.2.5.

Does anybody have any working version using newer versions of the 2.4 kernel
and newer GCC versions for a powerpc-603e target?  One motivation is to use
BusyBox-1.5.1, but I am told on that list that GCC 2/x is too old (I tried
before I asked, it doesn't compile).

Any help, pointers, example config files for crosstools, etc. would be
really appreciated!

Thanks in advance,
Shash

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Re: Latest GCC/GLIBC working combo for a Linux 2.4.x kernel?

[Clemens Koller]

Hi, Sasvata!

> We are using a RHEL/386 machine to cross-compile for Debian/PowerPC 
> (8260) target, a few year old embedded system that we inherited.  The 
> kernel is 2.4.9. Using crosstools, and following Dan Kegel's notes, the 
> combo we have is gcc-2.95-3/glibc-2.2.5.
> 
> Does anybody have any working version using newer versions of the 2.4 
> kernel and newer GCC versions for a powerpc-603e target?  One motivation 
> is to use BusyBox-1.5.1, but I am told on that list that GCC 2/x is too 
> old (I tried before I asked, it doesn't compile).

It's propably painful to work your way through crosstools with such an
old toolchain. I would have a look if one of the ELDK's from
http://www.denx.de can be used for your board - at least for a good start.
If you run into problems with older linux-2.4 kernel version with the newer ELDK's,
you can also go back to some older version?

> Any help, pointers, example config files for crosstools, etc. would be 
> really appreciated!

You are always welcome at their mailing list. See:
http://kegel.com/crosstool

Best greets,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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Re: Latest GCC/GLIBC working combo for a Linux 2.4.x kernel?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <a9fc2a630705241728q4d203569n6eb008cc65a7eba9@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have any working version using newer versions of the 2.4 kernel
> and newer GCC versions for a powerpc-603e target?  One motivation is to use
> BusyBox-1.5.1, but I am told on that list that GCC 2/x is too old (I tried
> before I asked, it doesn't compile).

Did you have a look at the ELDK?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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Re: Latest GCC/GLIBC working combo for a Linux 2.4.x kernel?

[Sasvata Chatterjee]

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Wolfgang,

Thanks for the pointer, and I am familiar with ELDK, since we are planning
on using it for a brand new embedded system.

On the older system, for which I started this thread, we need to use kernel
2.4.  ELDK-4.1 is based on kernel 2.6.19.  Is there an older ELDK I can get
that supported 2.4.x kernel with > 3.x GCC?

Thanks again!

Shash

PS: I have built gcc-4.1.1-glibc-2.3.6 cross-compiler for powerc-603e, and
working through compilation of kernel-2.4.26, but there are lots of problems
that I am needing to work through.

On 5/25/07, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
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> Did you have a look at the ELDK?
>
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