So, going back to the original question, what are the recommended versions - particularly if you are building 2.4.x kernels? Are the recomendations in the HOWTO out of date? I had to patch va-mips.h from the egcs RPM and more fixes seem to be needed before I get a kernel that compiles. Thanks, Phil -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:ralf@oss.sgi.com] Sent: 20 March 2001 20:37 To: Karel van Houten Cc: simong@oz.agile.tv; linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Recommended toolchain On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:12:02PM +0100, Karel van Houten wrote: > You wrote: > > Recently I've been working with various version mixes of the gnu tool > > chain for a mipsel-linux target and settled on a patchy binutils > > 2.8.1/egcs 1.1.2/glibc 2.0.6 setup. However this lacks the functionality > > that I would get from a newer toolchain for use with the linux 2.4 > > kernel. As a result, I was wondering if someone could recommend the > > latest "stable"/recommended toolchain for a mipsel-linux target. > > Well, I'm currently using: > binutils 2.10.1 > gcc 2.95.3 (with Maciej's patches) > glibc 2.2.2 (compiled with above toolchain). > > This toolchain works for native compiles on my mipsel box. > One drawback: I can't compile any kernels with this setup, > For kernel compiles I use 2.8.1/egcs-2.90.27/glibc-2.0.6. You MUST use minimum egcs-2.91.66 (1.1.2); older compilers WILL misscompile kernels. Ralf
