On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 16.3.2011 19:22, David Paterson kirjoitti: > >> Would it work with adding Binutils as well? > > The binutils sources aren't in sync with GCC sources. This has been > discussed recently on this list. Building also GDB separately is the > assumtion, trying to combine the sources may succeed but it would > be much easier to keep them as separately updated components in a > crosstoolchain. Generally the first build time is only a special > "bootstrap" case and later one just updates the components GCC, > binutils, GDB and newlib one at a time instead of starting everything > from scratch again... OK, that makes sense. I can pretty much keep gmp, mpfr, mpc and binutils as a single build step, as they'll only need updated if / when I get new sources. GDB can also be built as needed. > So, with its defaults the 'sparc-elf' target toolchain doesn't produce > executables for something... And it looks like C and C++ are fine but > other languages may be problematic without extra patches to the sources > or manual intervention during the build, for instance editing the > 'specs' file for '*endfile' to include some linker script for some > real board/monitor. There seemed to be support for 'cygmon' in libgloss. It was more a theoretical question than a real one, as I'm not planning on using either Fortran or Ada, just interested in how the configure and build process works and whether they could be included. It's quite a few years since I did any Fortran, and I've never even tried Ada... I'm currently rebuilding using the methods you recommended, and so far it's working fine... :-) Thanks for the help, David
