Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Disallow GCC 4.1.0 / 4.1.1

Al Viro
2009-01-02T22:52:37Z

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 08:14:58PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > FWIW, I'm using 4.3 on all targets at the moment. See
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/toolchain.git/
> > for fedora-based variant of that sucker. And yes, it does include
> > cross-to-sparc; all but sh/sh64, in fact (sh had serious compiler
> > breakage around 4.3.0 and backporting from -HEAD was far beyond
> > what I considered reasonable at that point).
>
> The full opensuse distribution also has a couple of spec files for
> generating cross compilers from recent versions. These are for
> icecream, but can be relatively easily adapted (or the binaries
> reused)
>
> In general I don't think building cross compilers is as hard
> as it used to be, so it can be reasonably done without any support
> scripts too.

*snort*

Well, the only support script here is "call rpmbuild with the right
arguments" (and kmk, which is about running kernel cross-build
conveniently and has nothing to do with building cross-toolchain
itself).

I'll need to update that to more current gcc anyway (and see if that
takes care of sh/sh64), so if you can dig those .spec out... throw
them my way and I'll add them to repository.

How well do they handle the targets for which you have no glibc-dev
binary rpms, BTW? I needed headers for ia64 and ppc64; both fortunately
are among the generally supported targets...