Re: cross-compilers
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?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:20:34AM -0500, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> The toolchain-source package has been created for those wishing to package
> a cross-compiler or cross-assembler for whatever reason. The -avr
> cross-compiler source packages should provide a good basis for packaging
> your own for those architectures.
I'll have to investigate which versions are there. Unfortunately newer
is not necessarily better when compiling kernels for non-x86...
Cheers,
Bill
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