Re: building a gcc-3.3-prerelease cross-compiler

[Rene Rebe <rene dot rebe at gmx dot net>]

Hi,

On: Tue, 13 May 2003 08:46:45 -0700,
    Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> wrote:

> I'm both sympathetic and frustrated by this as well.
> 
> One consequence of not having documentation which is correct (or even
> close) is that we don't find bugs in the build process.  It makes it
> difficult to tell whether a problem building a cross-compiler is
> (a) user error, (b) errors in the documentation, (c) unclear interactions
> between the configure options, (d) interactions or incompatibilities between
> components, or (e) errors in the implementation.
> 
> I'd like to see the CrossGCC FAQ actually be a list of Questions and
> Answers, not a script for building a cross-compiler with one specific
> set of options for one particular purpose.  IMO, we (the proverbial we,
> that is) could likely mine the GCC mailing list to find the common
> questions and the common answers.
> 
> As Daniel said, lack of time/experience/motivation is a factor.  I'm
> reluctant to say that I'll take a stab at a FAQ, given that I have limited
> time and every time I look at GCC configuration I feel that I'm being
> sucked into a tar pit.  :-)

As I mentioned in an earlier mail I already found out the missing
glue, "-C gcc" for the "make all" and "make install".

As reference for cross-building you might take a look into:

http://schillernet.dyndns.org/svn/rock-linux/rock-trunk/package/base/linux24-header/linux24-header.conf

http://schillernet.dyndns.org/svn/rock-linux/rock-trunk/package/base/glibc23/glibc23.conf

http://schillernet.dyndns.org/svn/rock-linux/rock-trunk/package/base/binutils/binutils.conf

http://schillernet.dyndns.org/svn/rock-linux/rock-trunk/package/base/gcc3/gcc3.conf

Built in that order - the stage0 is used for cross-toolchain creation
- the rest is an normal build.

Comments and corrections are welcome ;-)

Sincerely,
  René Rebe
    - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer

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