Re: debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/devel/binutils-mipsel-linux.deb,gcc-mipsel-linux.deb, etc.

["Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>]

I know about the MontaVista rpms, but I am looking for something for Debian
and also something a little more "vendor neutral".

Regards,
Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Popov" <ppopov@pacbell.net>
To: "Bradley D. LaRonde" <brad@ltc.com>
Cc: <debian-mips@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: Re:
debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/devel/binutils-mipsel-linux.deb,gcc-mip
sel-linux.deb, etc.


> Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> > The reason why I ask is that I've spent a lot of time trying to build a
gcc
> > 3.0 / glibc 2.2.3 mipsel cross-toolchain and I am still not done.  But,
> > building toolchains isn't what I want to spend my time doing.  I think
there
> > must be more people like me that just want to cross-build their apps.
Will
> > every one of us spend time building our own toolchains?  Seems like a
waste
> > of time.  The learning curve is steep enough, not to mention the
iteration
> > time wasted in mistakes.
> >
> > In the past I've simply used toolchains built by other people.  I would
like
> > to continue this tradition.  :-)
>
> So why not download the MontaVista MIPS Journeyman CD and install the
> cross toolchain? All of the mvista packages are cross built and the
> cross toolchain is quite up to date. The Journeyman CD includes the
> native toolchain as well, for those who insist on natively building
> packages.  Using the cross tools you can rebuild the mvista packages
> easily from the source rpms.  Doing that on a 1.2G x86 cpu sure beats an
> old 100MHz 4400.
>
> I'm not sure why so many people are trying to build their own cross
> toolchain when someone else has already done it.