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Re: building a gcc-3.3-prerelease cross-compiler
Hi,
On: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:46:45 -0700,
Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com> wrote:
> Thanks, but you miss my point.
Nope - it was only intended as intermediate help or starting-point for
a real FAQ.
> First off, "-C gcc" is not some important missing glue. It isn't necessary
> and I don't specify this when building a cross compiler.
For the way we setup the cross-build this is needed for gcc-2.95.x and
gcc-3.3.x but not for gcc-3.2.x ... :-(
> Second, it looks like you build glibc using a previously created GCC. Which
Yes.
> raises two issues:
> (1) how do you create that version of gcc, and (2) is
> this the same version of gcc that you build later?
> This is the classic bootstrap
> problem which appears overlooked.
Could you elaborate on the problem that appears to be overlooked?
> There are a number of scripts which describe how someone has built
> cross tools. They don't tell how to do something different from
> what the script does, nor do the distinguish between what is necessary,
> what is ideosyncratic about an environment, and what "just happens to work".
> Like your scripts, they are terse, with few comments and no explaination.
>
> Your scripts are interesting and I'll take a look. But shell scripts are not a FAQ.
Sure a real up-to-date FAQ is needed.
Sincerely,
René Rebe
- ROCK Linux stable release maintainer
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