Building gcc as a cross compiler

[Lewin A.R.W. Edwards]

Hi Christophe,

>In fact I'm trying to build a compiler that I will use to build a new
>operating system, so it should not generate Linux code (that's why I choose
>the coff format I believe it is a generic format). As a standard library,
>I'd like to build glibc (or newlib if it is better suited ?), also for a ARM
>platform.

newlib is intended for embedded platforms. It's smaller and purpose-built 
for embedded applications (which is to say, it's best for a constrained 
system).

You might want to try configuring for arm-elf. I have no problems building 
gcc for arm-elf, and unless you specifically need to use coff for some 
reason, elf is just as good a choice.

(I am not developing for Linux either. See my earlier help message 
"building current cvs for arm..." for my configuration commandline. This 
commandline works fine under Linux, I am just having problems inside cygwin...)

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