On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:24:00PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > I've historically done all of my MIPS/Linux development > native, on Indies, P-5064's, Atlas, and Malta. But now > that we seem to be in a situation where the latest, > greatest, and most correct compilers are x86 cross-dev > only. There is nothing that keeps you from building those compiler as native compilers also. Usually I only crosscompile kernels and do all other work native. > I've cut over to building kernels on my Athlon box. > I'd like to start building apps and benchmarks (not > necessarily from srpm's). Plainly, I need a set of > libraries (naive attempts at cross-compilation of > user code with the egcs 1.1.2 compiler results in > complaints about the missing crt1.o), and possibly > some variant include files. Which looks like you don't have a glibc package installed. > Are these packaged somewhere, and is there an FAQ/HowTo on how > to set them up? Guess I should occasionally roll an uptodate crosscompiler package ... > This may have been handled in Ralf's HowTo, but that seems to have > disappeared from the web. http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mips-howto.html. Where are you looking? It's still on the web and is also being distributed as part of the LDP project. Heck, the HOWTO even seems to ship with a number of Intel distributions, at least Conectiva 6.0 and Redhat 6.2 seem to include it, even though fairly old versions. Ralf
