Xscale big endian tool-chain (how to build it?)

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 20:26, Karel Gardas wrote:
> /home/karel/usr/local/arm-elf1/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-elf/4.0.1/../../../../arm-elf/bin/ld: 
> ERROR: 
> /home/karel/usr/local/arm-elf1/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-elf/4.0.1/be/libgcc.a(_dvmd_tls.o) 
> uses hardware FP, whereas hello.xg2 uses software FP
> [....]
> 
> if I understand it correctly, then libgcc.a provided in 
> /home/karel/usr/local/arm-elf1/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-elf/4.0.1/be/libgcc.a is 
> build with -mhard-float, while my application with -msoft-float.
> 
> Question: any idea how to build GCC tool-chain with soft-float's libgcc.a for 
> big-endian Xscale? -- here I assume I'm right with my conclusion above, if this 
> is not the case please correct me.
> 

You get this error if you try to use -msoft-float with a gcc
configuration that already defaults to -msoft-float.  This is because
the default object files are marked incorrectly in this case.  The
easiest way to work around it is to not use the -msoft-float option for
these configurations.

R.