Re: EGCS on Mipsel?

[Robert Lipe <robertl at dgii dot com>]

> 	I'm heading up a development project to port RedHat 5.2 to the
> Cobalt Qube/RAQ servers. These run the Mipsel architecture. We're about
> 50% through the project, but a significant amount of the SRPMS are
> requiring egcs to build. We do NOT have a working egcs RPM at this time.
>
> Has anyone been successful at getting egcs to compile and work on a Cobalt
> Qube/RAQ product?

I've never seen a Linux/MIPS system, but I've used the GNU tools on
embedded mipsel targets for about 6 years.  For a long time, I suspected
I was the *only* user of little endian MIPS targets. :-) On the premise
that you must have had some sort of GCC-like substance ported to this
system in order to get this far, it should be "merely" a matter of
backstitching the configuration from that version stuff into the current
version and getting it committed.

If you can grant clock cycles, disk space, and remote telnet/rlogin/ssh
access to an appropriate system (esp. if CVS access to the EGCS tree is
available) I can try to help you make it go.

Privately, we can work out the details like *which* mips processor is in
use, last version of EGCS/GCC known to work, where your current compiler
came from, etc...

RJL