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Re: cross-compilers



On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Hrm? Why would the slower architectures bother? The cross-build is to
>> build on speedier arches, no?

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:58:22PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> Not necessarily, although that's the most commonly assumed situation
> (embedded target compilation is the most frequent usage).

I'm sort of running a nursing home for old hardware, and prior abuses
they've seen in their lives apparently left them without much hardware...


On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'll have to investigate which versions are there. Unfortunately newer
>> is not necessarily better when compiling kernels for non-x86...

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:58:22PM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> True.  Either way, modifying toolchain-source is very easy to do locally
> (I've done it for testing a few things here and there).  Which archs are
> you looking to cross-compile?  I may have a toolchain already done on my
> home systems.

Well, I have

(1) MIPS R3000 (little-endian) DecStation 5000/200
(2) m680000   (sun3)
(3) SparcStation 1  (sun4c)

... the last versions of gcc that could produce working kernels on these
are all different. IIRC the m68k/sun3 one is quite old... I'll have to
dig the precise versions up later in a little while.


Cheers,
Bill



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