Building a cross compiler (Was: -Dinhibit_libc)

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:12:14PM -0400, Kevin Yohe wrote:

> I'm still a bit confused.  When I download gcc, I get a tarball that
> extracts everything to ./gcc-4.x.x/, and likewise with newlib and binutils.
> Under that directory there is another directory called gcc that contains all
> the source files.  I have read somewhere that my directories should look
> something like this.
> 
> src/
> 	+-- gcc
> 	+-- newlib
> 	+-- binutils
> build/
> 	+-- gcc
> 	+-- newlib
> 	+-- binutils
> 
> Then you can do this
> cd build
> ../src/configure
> make
> 
> That's all well and good but exactly how do I set this up with what I am
> given?

   This has been answered before, so it's in the archives:

<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-06/msg00210.html>
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2007-06/msg00230.html>

> This looks like it might work but begs the question, which configure (or
> other conflicting files) from which tarball do I use? gcc?

   Generall, gcc holds the master copy, but if e.g. you try to build an old
release of gcc and a new release of binutils, you may have to use the newer
one.

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Rask Ingemann Lambertsen