On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:35:41AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> What happened to the cross-compilers? > >> I've got a ds5k/200, sun3/60, and ss1 I'm trying to build kernels for > >> and the mipsel, m68k, and sparc cross-toolchains have vaporized. > >> Any chance versions suitable for building kernels will appear anytime > >> soon? > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:20:34AM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > Not unless someone is willing to maintain them :-) Seriously, though, I > > stopped producing cross-assemblers from the binutils package because they > > caused unduly long build times on slower architectures with minimal gain > > (it was unknown just how many people used those packages, especially since > > I've only gotten about five questions about their disappearance to date). > Hrm? Why would the slower architectures bother? The cross-build is to > build on speedier arches, no? If you upload a binutils-mipsel package to the archive that's arch: any (or arch: !mipsel), that means the autobuilders will try to build it on all other architectures -- including m68k and arm, even though no one in their right mind would use an m68k or arm machine to build binaries for mipsel. ;) Uploading cross-building packages that are arch: i386 powerpc sparc alpha hppa ia64 s390 might be a better idea -- /if/ someone wanted to maintain them. And if things don't crash&burn now when going between 32 & 64 bit architectures, like they did last time I tried to build a cross-compiler for alpha->anything. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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