Re: Cross-compiling toolchain default location choice

[ncrfgs <ncrfgs at tin dot it>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:55:33AM -0700, Daniel Kegel wrote:
> > > Did you also look at http://kegel.com/crosstool?  Ryan is contributing
> > > improvements to those, too.  (He wanted NPTL support, and sent in a patch.
> > > I'll try to add that in the next release.)
> >
> > Yes, but I faced some problems when trying to use a custom versions 
> > combo (I'm using a pretty exotic one at the moment)
> 
> Can you tell me more?

Sorry, I'm afraid that "problems" was misleading. It was just a matter of 
personal tastes. Since the beginning I was looking for something I could 
have easily wrote some CRUX Pgkfile scripts from. 

From this point of view, after I gave a look at both crosstool and cross-lfs, 
I found myself more comfortable with cross-lfs. Less patches to apply 
(actually I hadn't to patch anything at all) and few, standard scripts to 
follow.

Furthermore, the CRUX PPC regular toolchain building scripts have a lot in 
common with LFS so I kinda "felt at home". That's all. =) 


> > Is there a way to make it to coexist with the "regular" toolchain in 
> > /usr?
> 
> Maybe, but it's a lot safer to put it somewhere else.
> 
> 
> > > I think the 2nd gcc can completely replace the 1st.
> >
> > Do you think is possible to safely mix libgcc_eh.a and libgcc_s.so* 
> > from the second gcc with the files from the first one?
> 
> I don't know.  I would suggest just using the files
> installed by the 2nd one and ignoring all the files from the 1st.

I removed the previous glibc and gcc packages and kept just the last ones and
all went fine.

I took /usr/${TARGET}/ as default location, I hope it will be ok.

Thanks a lot for the info.


> > I'm trying to do so because CRUX generally tries to make different 
> > packages for each single components.
> 
> Yeah, but that doesn't make sense for cross-compiler toolchains,
> I've come to believe.  You'll be much happier if you make
> the whole toolchain a package.

I know but that was one of my goal since the beginning. That's why I asked.



Scuse me for the late reply.

Thanks again.

Best regards.
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