[U-Boot-Users] ARM Tool chain Recommendation

Wolfgang Denk
2004-06-07T18:04:30Z

Dear Curt,

in message <20040607105849.B4471@cucy.com> you wrote:
>
> Well I have one tool chain call "arm-linux-" and one called "arm-elf-"
> that I installed. I don't remember where I got the arm-linux tools
> from, but the arm-elf tools came from

Well, if you don't even know the differences in the configurations
yourself, how do you expect us to explain them to you? Without even
knowing where one toolchain might be coming from???

> The strange thing is these compiler define slightly different macros

Obviously they are configured differently.

> Now the problem I run into with u-boot is that the arm-elf-gcc
> compiler defines the symbol "arm", which the arm-linux-gcc does not.

Then it is broken. "arm" is not a reserved symbol by the compiler.

> I was just wondering what tool to use for u-boot. I figured the answer
> was "ELDK, or course".

Personally, I wouldn't trust a tool where I don't know how it was
configured, or what for, or why, or by whom ;-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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