Re: Revised release criteria for GCC 4.0

["E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>]

Daniel Kegel wrote:

> Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > Peter Barada wrote:
>
> > > I hope that future development does not preclude
> > > the creation of working cross-compilers, and I'd like to see the
> > > addition to the release criteria that GCC has to configure/build
> > > cross-compilers for a set of targets, and perhaps build up a full
> > > cross-toolchain as a way to stress it.
> >
> >
> > I agree here.  In the long term, building cross-toolchains should
> > be automated using the top-level machinery.
> >
> > Building them all with a single script would be great
>
>
> I would be happy to provide a single script tailored for this purpose.
> Total runtime for the script would be under a day on a 1GHz machine, I 
> think.
>
> What's the appropriate list of targets?  My first guess is:
>   arm, i686, ia64, m68k, mips, powerpc750, powerpc970, s390, sh4, x86_64
I'd like to see avr added to that list. Note, however, that the C 
library wouldn't have to be built since this is just testing the build 
of binutils and gcc. The avr target uses its own library: avr-libc.