Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:04:27AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >>> Bugger.... >>> Now I cannot do cross compile for: alpha, arm, m68k and sparc. >>> >>> Not that I actually try to run these beasts but just being able >>> to do cross compile has served me well. >> We _could_ make a "CONFIG_COMPILE_ONLY" check, but wouldn't it be even >> nicer to make sure the cross-compiles are something that might actually be >> expected to work? >> >> I realize that cross-tools tend to lag a bit - the pressure to maintain >> them tends to be much lower - but I was sure we had somebody who did a >> reasonable cross-compiler toolchain. Is gcc-4.1 really the most modern >> thing that is easily available? > > Asked google and it found following page: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ > > Architecuter OK? gcc version > --------------------------------- > alpha No gcc 4.0.2 > arm Yes gcc 3.4.5 > ia64 Yes gcc 3.4.5 > m68k Yes gcc 3.4.5 > mips Yes gcc 3.4.5 > sh4 Yes gcc 3.4.5 > sparc Yes gcc 3.4.5 > sparc64 Yes gcc 3.4.5 > x86_64 Yes gcc 3.4.5 > > > So from this list of tool chains we can continue to do cross builds > of all except alpha. > But the gcc version is getting ancient.. > > Why it shall be so hard to do cross build toolchains is above my > imagination but then I also never looked at what it involes. > > Added Vegard that maintain these pages. I doubt that these are any more recent, but the filenames don't say: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/ Yes, it is an ongoing problem. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
