Hi! Really i don't find it that hard. For commonly used and well supported targets, it's as simple as configure, make, make install with some arguments (but those aren't that hard to figure out). I somebody wants to build a compiler (or even better a cross compiler), he should be at least be able to figure out some configure switches i think. Otherwise he/she won't get happy with the compiler then either, because most other packages builds are exactly the same complexity as gcc's (ok, gcc has some extras on board, but they don't matter here i think). Cheers, Markus Tom St Denis <> wrote: > Lionel B wrote: >> So it's a little tricky to build from source and install a large, >> complex, sophisticated, cross-platform, open source compiler suite. >> How surprising. Now... when did *anyone* - average user or not - >> build and install a MS compiler suite from source (apart from an MS >> employee)? >> > > I don't think it would be a radically huge task to get a decent > coverage of configurations [for both GCC and binutils] in some type > of wrapper script. Granted, you can't cover all possible weird > configurations, but why would something that can target the common > platforms [e.g. ARM, PPC, MIPS, x86] be so hard? > > But other than that I agree. I've been using GCC [and related tools] > for quite some time, and almost always it's tools I just download as > binaries [or have gentoo build for me]. Having put together my own > ARM cross compiler before, I can say from experience that the process > could be easier. > > > My 2 cents... > > Tom -- 5. Dezember 2007 Salomon Automation am Schweizer Forum fur Logistik, Lausanne, CH Salomon Automation GmbH - Friesachstrasse 15 - A-8114 Friesach bei Graz Sitz der Gesellschaft: Friesach bei Graz UID-NR:ATU28654300 - Firmenbuchnummer: 49324 K Firmenbuchgericht: Landesgericht fur Zivilrechtssachen Graz
