> > 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. "Let them eat cake". My Athlon is an order of magnitude faster than my 4Kc, and several times faster than my Algor/R5260. It also has much more memory and a CD-RW unit for backup, unlike my MIPS boxes. As MIPS/Linux becomes more an embedded platform and less an SGI/DEC legacy platform, people are in general not going to put up with being forced to buy old Indy's to do their target application work! > > 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. That's correct. Because I have the strong suspicion that RH 7.0 PC rpm is too stupid to put it somewhere useful, and is far more likely to clobber my native i686 libc unless I give it the correct incantations. Hence my question. And of course, if it ends up somewhere other than /usr/lib, presumably I need to tweak mips-linux-gcc to know where it is. I'm sure that's documented somewhere, too, but it would save me several hours if someone had a description of how to install the full cross environment on a Linux PC. > > 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 ... If not you, someone certainly needs to. > > 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? There is no visible link to it on the oss.sgi.com/mips page - then again there's no visible link to oss.sgi.com/mips from the oss.sgi.com page, so at least things are consistent. ;-) It used to be accessible from the FAQ that used to be at oss.sgi.com/mips/faq.html, but that document has be deleted, leaving no forwarding address. The pointers on Brad LaRonde's site is even older (remember linux.sgi.com?). > 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. That's great. Now, why can't there be a pointer to it on one of the pages accessible to someone dropping into oss.sgi.com/mips? Regards, Kevin K.
