From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757940AbZDIAsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 20:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756168AbZDIArw (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 20:47:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47478 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753682AbZDIArv (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 20:47:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:44:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tony Breeds Cc: Alex Chiang , Robin Holt , linux-kernel , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cross-compilers Message-Id: <20090408174443.79e71503.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090409003308.GK16602@bilbo.ozlabs.org> References: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090407225457.86f8a458.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090409003308.GK16602@bilbo.ozlabs.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:33:08 +1000 Tony Breeds wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:54:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > We would benefit very much from having someone who actually maintains a > > suite of cross-compilers for kernel developers. > > I build wont say maintain many of the cross compilers used for linux-next. I > can place them somehere. Please do. Several people have made suggestions but I don't think I've yet seen anything which is download-and-go. Many of them appear to be ways of tricking people into installing distributions which include dselect, but I'm awake to their little games.