RE: Cross compiler Alpha->powerpc problems

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Koninckx [mailto:bob.koninckx@mech.kuleuven.ac.be]
>Sent: 25 March 2001 11:30

>## PATH=/usr/local/crossgcc/powerpc-eabi/bin:$PATH; export PATH

  Don't do this.

  In the $prefix/$target/bin directory, you have cross binutils, with
no '$target-' prefix.  Putting this directory first in your path means that
whenever gcc tries to invoke 'as', it will find the ppc cross assembler and
run that.  That's not what you want; you want to find the native assembler,
since you're building a compiler that's meant to run on your alpha, not 
your ppc.

  What you really wanted was

  PATH=/usr/local/crossgcc/bin:$PATH; export PATH

so that the cross compile process can find the cross binutils under the
name 'powerpc-eabi-as' etc.

  Clear everything out and try again with this version of the path setting.

  I can't promise that this is the solution to your problem, but it's
still necessary; I've always had mysterious build errors when I've made
that mistake myself.

  BTW, http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/getstart.html only mentions the
tools as running under Linux and Windows, so you may find that they
don't build correctly under Alpha?  Or are you running Linux on Alpha?
Have you joined the eCos mailing list?  Did you apply the path from
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/tools/patches/ecos-gcc-2952.pat
to the gcc source code?

      DaveK
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