Why is building a cross compiler "out-of-the-box" always broken?

[René Rebe]

On Friday 17 August 2007 23:56:30 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "Stephen M. Kenton" <skenton@ou.edu> writes:
> 
> > However, the question
> > remains, why is the problem still there to be circumvented?  Is there
> > some secret opposition to easy use of these tools, is there some law
> > of nature that prevents them from building, is there some good
> > technical reason that is hard to implement, or has it just not been a
> > big enough pain for anyone to beat it into submission?
> 
> The central problem is that gcc, binutils, glibc, and the kernel are
> all separate projects which are distributed and maintained separately
> by different people.  Thus there are mismatches and confusions and
> difficulties which result from the different release cycles and
> different agendas.
> 
> Thus there is a place in the ecosystem for people to write the scripts
> needed to smooth over those differences.  And indeed that ecosystem is
> filled by tools like crosstool and buildtool.

Or the T2 SDE (http://www.t2-project.org).

> This is certainly not ideal.  But the organizational differences make
> it quite difficult to fix in any other way.
> 
> Ian

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