Re: Kernel Cross Compiling

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:21:57PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> thanks for the info, I read/tested that one too, some time
>> ago, but decided against this approach, as it builds the
>> glibc, which I do not need for the kernel toolchain at all
>> and I didn't want to bother with another source that won't
>> compile on arch xy ... maybe the wrong decision? I don't 
>> know ...

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:28:11AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> you might also want to have a look at the idea behind PTXdist (see
> http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist_en.html) which is also able
> to build toolchains and do all the necessary tweaking, without building
> a glibc (just only run 'make xchain-gccstage1' to get a compiler without
> glibc). It follows the same approach for the patch repositories like Dan
> and we are syncing heavily.
> The whole toolchain building is a huge mess at the moment.  

(a) The idiot thing was screwed wrt. binutils when the things were
	prefixed with e.g. sparc64-linux-gnu-$PROG; I managed to decipher
	where the paths were and just patch in the names of the crossutils.
(b) The stuff produced broken kernels; I had to resort to native builds
	anyway (which far from ideal, since it target violates host/target
	separation), and lost money getting a second of its kind to repair
	that state of affairs.

-- wli