From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Fw: Another problem with making things static Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:44:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20070210234424.500ed1c9.akpm__5988.99827241457$1416624282$gmane$org@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070210130136.9538498b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070210214309.GP12958@stusta.de> <1171158436.3373.51.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070210201911.7a16b5f3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070211072552.GC22248@colo.lackof.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: James Bottomley , Linus Torvalds , Parisc List To: Grant Grundler Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <20070211072552.GC22248@colo.lackof.org> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:25:52 -0700 Grant Grundler wrote: > > My attempt to build a working parisc cross-compiler failed, which doesn't help. > > I appreciate your attempt to build parisc-linux. > Could you post which source tree and which build command line you used? It was maybe a year back - I spent a couple of days wrestling with crosstool, ended up with _some_ useful crosscompilers (alpha, arm, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, s390, sparc, sparc64 and x86_64). parisc was one of the ones which I gave up on but I do not have a record of what the problem was, sorry. It would have been a toolchain problem, not a kernel problem. The most usual failure mode was simply inability to find any combination of gcc/binutils/glibc which could be compiled. > I'm pretty sure this can be fixed. > We've used cross compilers in the past so I know it's worked before. I say this a lot, but... It is in the interests of arch maintainers to help others to build cross-compilers. If someone were to prepare a web page (or even a script) which could be used to generate a kernel cross-compilation environment for parisc then the parisc maintainers would see a lot less breakage. For one, I do allmodconfig on all architectures on all patches I get (and that includes all the git trees). If stuff breaks, the breaker gets to hear about it, before it gets merged. _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux