Regarding GCC mips64 cross compiler for x86

[Bryan Hundven]

Sasikumar,

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy <ckmsasi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Steve/Bryan,
>
> My linux machine is doesn't have latest autoconf to configure the
> crosstool-ng and i don't have permission to upgrade the autoconf and
> dependency software.
>
> How can i get the latest version of crosstool-ng with the above fix? Also, i
> hope, we can configure crosstool-ng manually.

You could just install autoconf, automake, and libtool to a local
path, say: $HOME/autotools

get the source for each...
./configure --prefix="$HOME/autotools"
make
make install
export PATH="$HOME/autotools:$PATH"

Cheers,

-Bryan

> Thanks & Regards
> Sasi
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Steve Ellcey <sellcey@imgtec.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 14:19 -0800, Bryan Hundven wrote:
>>
>> > > Oh! I see now. 64-bit should not need to be marked as experimental!
>> > > I will make sure that is fixed in 1.22.0 (which will be releasing
>> > > soon!)!
>> >
>> > My apologies for not noticing the issue sooner! This is now fixed in
>> > git and will be fixed in 1.22.0:
>> >
>> > https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/commit/4be766254d2368901513aa25fefbaa383092f3cd
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > -Bryan
>>
>> FYI: I downloaded the latest crosstool-ng sources and was able to
>> successfully build a mips64 toolchain (n64 ABI) that included Fortran.
>>
>> Steve Ellcey
>> sellcey@imgtec.com
>>
>