Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Peter Barada wrote:
> > > Unfortunately for some of the embedded targets(like the ColdFire V4e
> > > work I'm doing), a bootstrap is impossible due to limited memory and
> > > no usable mass-storage device on the hardware I have available, so
> > > hopefully a successful crossbuild will suffice.
> >
> > How about a successful crossbuild plus
> > passing some regression test suite,
> > e.g. gcc's, glibc's, and/or ltp's?
> > Any one of them would provide a nice reality check.
>
> I'm open to running them if there's a *really* clear how-to to do it
> that takes into account remote hardware.

I'm not sure it qualifies as *really* clear, but my
doc on doing remote gcc and glibc test runs is at
http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/crosstest-howto.html
Have you tried that yet?
It worked for me on systems with 16 MB of RAM and a
network connection.  I bet it'd work with less RAM
if you ditched the glibc tests.
- Dan


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