Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

Adrian Bunk
2008-05-02T08:12:05Z

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:59:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 16:24:47 -0700
> Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:33:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > Drat. There go my alpha, i386, m68k, s390, sparc and powerpc
> > > cross-compilers. Vagard, save me!
> > >
> > > Meanwhile I guess I can locally unpatch that patch.
> >
> > I know I'll come off as an ass, but you can't make new ones with 4.1.2?
> > It's not like we're talking about gcc 2.95/96 fun here :)
>
> Honestly, I nearly died when I built all those cross-compilers. Sooooooo
> many combinations of gcc/binutils/glibc refused to work for obscure
> reasons. Compilation on x86_64 just didn't work at all and I ended up
> having to build everything on a slow i386 box, etc, etc. The stream of
> email to Dan got increasingly strident ;)
>...

I have my binutils 2.18.50.0.6 / gcc 4.3 based cross toolchains for an
i386 host here (no glibc included since I'm using them only for kernel
testcompiles).

If you are using an x86 machine I can rebuild them without -march=k8
and give you a copy.

cu
Adrian

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