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Re: Newbie: ARM cross compiler GCC
F. Fennek wrote:
Hello all,
I am trying to build a cross compiler for a cortex M3 ARM target on a
Linux host.
You should also know your target a little better, the CPU, 'arm', and
its variation, 'Cortex M3',
are telling quite the same as 'i486' would tell in the x86 world. So
something like "ARM-XYZ with
Linux', 'ARM-XYZ with NetBSD', 'ARM-XYZ with Symbian', 'ARM-XYZ with
bare monitor
on an evaluation board' etc. could be that understandable '$target' type.
And I have a rather basic question.
If I google on ARM toolchain I find a lot of help BUT most toolchain
builders are scripts and most of them use patches of some sort.
The scripts (or work flow) are mostly explained rather good but where
the used patches come from are never explained.
So my question is:
Do I need patches to build an ARM cross compiler when I use the GCC source code?
"Don't fix it if it ain't broken!" This rule would be quite useful, any
extra patches would try to
fix something.
The usual 'arm-linux-gnu', 'arm-linux-gnueabi' and 'arm-elf' targets
shouldn't require any extra
patches, don't know about special targets like 'arm-symbianelf',
'arm-wince' etc.