Re: Installing Cross-Compiler

[Erik Mouw <J dot A dot K dot Mouw at its dot tudelft dot nl>]

On 27 May 2000 17:48:00 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 26, 2000, Desmond Cheung <dycheung@cs.sfu.ca> wrote:
> 
>> ./fixinc.sh: /usr/local-kirin/gnudev/gnu/m68k/bar/m68k-coff/sys-include: does
> not exist
> 
>> Does anybody know how to get around with this?
> 
> You must have the target headers available in this directory so that
> fixinc can do its job on them.  If you don't have any target headers,
> you may need newlib.

This is usually a chicken-and-egg problem: in order to install the
headers, you need to compile libc with the cross compiler; to install the
cross compiler, you need the headers. You can get around this by using the
-Dinhibit_libc hack. It's described at:

  http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/~chris/arm-tools.html#app-inhibit

This page is specifically for a ArmLinux cross compiler, but the basic
idea can be applied to other cross compilers, too. When I use this hack, I
usually build gcc two times:

- compile and install gcc with -Dinhibit_libc hack, and only support C
- compile and install glibc
- recompile gcc without the -Dinhibit_libc hack, but this time with all
  the language support you need


Erik

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