From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763933AbZDHJuk (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:50:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763528AbZDHJuO (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:50:14 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45468 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758843AbZDHJuM (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:50:12 -0400 To: Alex Chiang Cc: Robin Holt , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cross-compilers From: Andi Kleen References: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com> Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:50:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com> (Alex Chiang's message of "Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600") Message-ID: <87myara2zz.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Chiang writes: > * Robin Holt : >> 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. > > Wow, this seems _much_ simpler. Once you get the toolchain > installed, all you have to do is set ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE > appropriately? > > I guess the question remains for Andrew. Since I pretty much did > all the work needed to update his cross-compiler repo, is there > still value in it? > > Or shall we just recommend emdebian to everyone? :) SUSE also has cross-gcc-* rpms. Typically for icecream, but they're relatively easy to extract into native format. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.