Hi, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Kai Ruottu <kai.ruottu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You mean "native build" ? As you can see from the previous > time stamps, the time between the 3.4.6 and 4.1.2 installs > was about 15 minutes, so doing it cross could be much, much > more sane! > A native 4.3.5 build on a 650 MHz pentium3 took 5.5 hours for bootstrap of c and c++. The same build for 3.4.6 took under an hour. An idle 700 chews up about 61 watts. But it will take a week or so to complete. That is 10 KWH. So ... Can someone point me to some info to learn how to setup cross compilers? Is it a little easier if I am just building the compiler itself? > The current "gcc-4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb2 20081120)" for > NetBSD 5.1/mac68k seems to been configured with : > > /usr/src/tools/gcc/../../gnu/dist/gcc4/configure --enable-long-long > --disable-multilib --enable-threads --disable-symvers > --build=x86_64-unknown-netbsd4.99.72 --host=m68k--netbsdelf > --target=m68k--netbsdelf --enable-__cxa_atexit > > So the cross $build machine was a "x86_64-unknown-netbsd4.99.72" > system for the "native m68k--netbsdelf"... > > So the stupid question is: Why you must do the GCC build natively for > a system like a 25 MHz m68040 ? As you can see, one could see the > answers to the "does it work" questions in some minutes with an > uptodate quick development platform... > Lack of experience doing cross stuff ... Guess I'll take a stab at it ... Thanks! kevin
