F. Fennek wrote:
Hello all, I am trying to build a cross compiler for a cortex M3 ARM target on a Linux host.
You should also know your target a little better, the CPU, 'arm', and its variation, 'Cortex M3', are telling quite the same as 'i486' would tell in the x86 world. So something like "ARM-XYZ with Linux', 'ARM-XYZ with NetBSD', 'ARM-XYZ with Symbian', 'ARM-XYZ with bare monitor
on an evaluation board' etc. could be that understandable '$target' type.
And I have a rather basic question. If I google on ARM toolchain I find a lot of help BUT most toolchain builders are scripts and most of them use patches of some sort. The scripts (or work flow) are mostly explained rather good but where the used patches come from are never explained. So my question is: Do I need patches to build an ARM cross compiler when I use the GCC source code?
"Don't fix it if it ain't broken!" This rule would be quite useful, any extra patches would try to fix something. The usual 'arm-linux-gnu', 'arm-linux-gnueabi' and 'arm-elf' targets shouldn't require any extra patches, don't know about special targets like 'arm-symbianelf', 'arm-wince' etc.
