FW: GCC cross compiler question

["Tom Gosselin" <tgosselin at international-wireless dot net>]

Hello, 
I'm hoping you might be able to help me.  I have been tasked with
finding a solution to our current roadblock and I'm having difficulty
doing that.  It involves GCC, specifically installing it for a cross
compiler.

Our project involves C and C++ code running a PDA with an XScale CPU. 
A pc running windows xp is host for the build process.  The PDA in
question is running WinCE.  Since Microsoft's Nmake doesn't cut the
mustard for compiling for XScale, we're turning to GNU make to see if it
is a possible avenue for us.

My questions are:

Is it possible?  (I have read conflicting articles regarding the cross
compiler potential of gcc)

How is it done?  (I have installed CYGWIN, configured, made and
completed the install for binutils, then ran the configure, did a make
bootstrap and make install of gcc to produce a native compiler.  This
seemed to work fine, but when I try to build gcc as a cross compiler, it
fails during the 'make bootstrap' and reports:

mkdir libgcc
if [ -f stmp-dirs ]; then true; else touch stmp-dirs; fi
/gcc_arm/gcc/xgcc -B/gcc_arm/gcc/ -B/binutils_arm/arm-aout/bin/
-B/binutils_arm/
arm-aout/lib/ -isystem /binutils_arm/arm-aout/include -O2  -DIN_GCC
-DCROSS_COMP
ILE   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
-isystem
 ./include   -g  -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -Dinhibit_libc
-I. -I. -I
../../gcc_src/gcc -I../../gcc_src/gcc/. -I../../gcc_src/gcc/config
-I../../gcc_s
rc/gcc/../include -DL_udivsi3 -xassembler-with-cpp -c
../../gcc_src/gcc/config/a
rm/lib1funcs.asm -o libgcc/./_udivsi3.o
xgcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program as)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [libgcc/./_udivsi3.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/gcc_arm/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stmp-multilib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/gcc_arm/gcc'
make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2

I am getting documentation together to send this bug info in as the
output suggested, but I'm still on the hook for making this work.  Do
you have any suggestions?

My experience is modest in this area and any help (especially that which
includes details) is VERY much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!


Tom Gosselin
QA Engineer
International Wireless, Inc.
http://www.international-wireless.net
Office - 781-939-7252
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