tic54x cross compiler

[Paul Berube]

Ok, I was wondering why it wasn't on the list of supported targets... But, 
gcc compilation never complains that it does not know the tic54x target, 
and the configure script recognizes --target=tic54x as a cross compiler 
for tic54x-unknown-coff...

I'm confused.  How can I know for sure whether gcc supports tic54x or not?
And why would there be binutils support without gcc support?

Thanks.


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 qinfeng.zhang@philips.com wrote:

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> But GCC don't support tic54x. What on earth do you want to do? Porting GCC for tic54x or install GCC?
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> Hi.
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> I'm trying to build a native-to-tic54x gcc cross compiler (where native is
> i686 on RedHat9).
> 
> First I configure, build, and install binutils-2.14
> That looks OK, lots of tic54x specific executables like as, ar, ld in the
> specified install location.
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> Then, I configure, build, and install gcc-3.3
> Configure looks ok.
> build does a whole lot, and no errors that I noticed.
> 
> Install seems to go into a bunch of directories, and do a whole lot of
> "nothing to be done".  The whole output fits in a moderatly sized xterm.
> I think it renames libiberty.an to libiberty.a, and that's about all.
> 
> I've repeated this whole process several times, with the same results.
> 
> I noticed that there is nothing in the /tic54x directory in the gcc build
> directory.
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> The big problem here is that I don't get a gcc executable... I was
> expecting a tic54x-gcc or something similar (in the dir, or subdir, of
> --prefix=...), just like the tic54x-as/ar/ld etc... made by binutils.
> 
> So, can anyone speculate on what's going on here?  This is my first time
> installing gcc, let alone a gcc cross-compiler, and I have no idea what's
> going wrong.  I'm following (near identical) instructions from two
> different sources (gcccross faq, and
> http://www.solidas.com/tic4x/build.php), so I figure the problem shouldn't
> be my methodology...
> 
> Thanks!
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> Note: (probably irrelevent, but just in case)
> --prefix is set to my user file space, as I am using this independently at
> university, and it can't be installed in a "normal" place, and I also do
> not have root access.
> 
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> --
> Paul Berube
> Dept. of Computing Science
> University of Alberta
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