Re: Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

[Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Joe Buck wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:49:52PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
> > Building a cross compiler from scratch "just works" (as in all one
> > has to do is "configure, make all install") if all of binutils, gcc,
> > newlib, libgloss, libstdc++, etc. are siblings.
> > [At least this use to "just work".]
> >
> > The number of hoops one has to go through when this isn't the
> > case can be painful, especially if one is doing active development
> > on multiple packages (e.g. writing a new port from scratch).
> >
> > Is there any interest in making this easier?
>
> You might want to try the crossgcc list

The crossgcc folks are all for anything that makes
configuring and building crosstoolchains easier.
These days, most of them use glibc or uclibc, though, and I think
those folks can't use the sibling-build technique, right?

So your target audience is "people who use newlib, use the uberbaum
build, and who work on multiple gcc trees", right?  Seems
like such a small audience it's not likely to be widely used,
but that's just my impression.
- Dan