From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compilers
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:03:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Don't know if this answers your problem, but I use the tools from
emdebian and they do not suffer from the problems you list below.
Good Luck,
Robin
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I've been using your cross-compilers here:
>
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/
>
> for a long time now, but they're starting to suffer from a bit of
> neglect.
>
> For example, the ia64 bundle, which used gcc 3.4.5 is now finally
> too old to build 2.6.30-rc1, because of a gcc bug related to
> labels.
>
> Some of the newer bundles which use gcc 4.1.0 don't work because
> of a check in:
>
> include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
>
> So my question is, do you still use those tools hosted on
> kernel.org or do you have a new solution these days?
>
> If you have a new solution, I'd like to hear it, because I found
> those cross-compilers pretty useful, as I'm sure others did.
>
> I spent most of yesterday fiddling about and managed to build an
> x86_64 host, ia64 target, gcc 4.2.3, glibc 2.3.6 bundle, and it
> all seems to work.
>
> Is this something you're interested in? I could send you my
> tarball (and slowly work on some of the other archs).
>
> If so, what were the crosstool build options you used? I'm
> specifically wondering about:
>
> - should I am for lowest common denominator host or are
> you ok with x86_64 host
>
> - did you statically link the toolchain? or is it
> dynamically linked?
>
> Thanks.
>
> /ac
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-08 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 0:39 cross-compilers Alex Chiang
2009-04-08 1:03 ` Robin Holt [this message]
2009-04-08 5:46 ` cross-compilers Alex Chiang
2009-04-08 5:53 ` cross-compilers Pekka Enberg
2009-04-08 5:54 ` cross-compilers Andrew Morton
2009-04-08 6:12 ` cross-compilers Peter Chubb
2009-04-08 10:53 ` cross-compilers Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-08 15:29 ` cross-compilers Lennart Sorensen
2009-04-08 15:39 ` cross-compilers Xavier Bestel
2009-04-08 17:33 ` cross-compilers Alex Chiang
2009-04-08 17:36 ` cross-compilers Randy Dunlap
2009-04-09 12:52 ` cross-compilers Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-04-09 20:51 ` cross-compilers Segher Boessenkool
2009-04-09 0:20 ` cross-compilers Rob Landley
2009-04-09 0:33 ` cross-compilers Tony Breeds
2009-04-09 0:44 ` cross-compilers Andrew Morton
2009-04-09 0:55 ` cross-compilers Alex Chiang
2009-04-09 20:24 ` cross-compilers Helge Deller
2009-04-09 20:31 ` cross-compilers Alex Chiang
2009-04-09 21:52 ` cross-compilers Tony Breeds
2009-04-09 23:47 ` cross-compilers Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-04-10 10:12 ` cross-compilers Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-04-10 10:19 ` cross-compilers Mike Frysinger
2009-04-10 10:49 ` cross-compilers Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-10 10:50 ` cross-compilers Mike Frysinger
2009-04-10 15:59 ` cross-compilers Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-04-10 16:03 ` cross-compilers Al Viro
2009-04-11 11:23 ` cross-compilers Jan-Benedict Glaw
2009-04-10 5:45 ` cross-compilers Sam Ravnborg
2009-04-11 9:46 ` cross-compilers Tony Breeds
2009-04-09 7:29 ` cross-compilers Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-04-08 5:55 ` cross-compilers Robin Holt
2009-04-08 9:50 ` cross-compilers Andi Kleen
2009-04-08 11:08 ` cross-compilers Alex Buell
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