build status for cross builds?

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

 >> I"m not sure how meaningful it is to attempt to keep track of
 >> cross-build successes.  Right now there is no useable
 >> documentation of how to do cross-builds.  There are fragmentary
 >> and years-out-of-date pieces of folklore; combined with large
 >> amounts of effort and luck those may sometimes produce working
 >> cross-builds.

 Joe> This is a bit of an exaggeration.

 Joe> All the more reason to report successes; just ask that these
 Joe> success reports document the exact procedures followed, so that
 Joe> others can imitate.

(abbreviated reply to the list, much longer reply offline...)

I wish I could agree it's an exaggeration.  I can't report successes,
because I have had exactly zero of them in perhaps 20 attempts over
the past 4 years and versions from 2.7.3 through 3.1.  (I'm ignoring
one success, that one for a target supported only in an internal code
drop not yet integrated into the GCC mainstream.)

A lot of these were recent, as I tried many variations to attempt
--target=mips-netbsd --with-newlib on a Linux host.  I posted a cry
for help on that some weeks ago, and while Zack did his best to help
out, I'm still stuck on that one, and I have heard nothing else.  Is
there anyone here who has successfully executed such a crossbuild?  If
so, I'd *love* to hear the magic words...

    paul