RE: Cross Compilation for ARM/LINUX

[Steven Newbury <s_j_newbury at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

--- Ajay Jain <ajain@neomagic.com> wrote:

> 
> > > 2) What is the latest source for cross-tool? Crosstool-0.43 
> > appears to
> > > be old ..
> > >
> > I think you can customize crosstool-0.43 by yourself. In fact, I used
> > a older crosstool (0.38) to build a gcc-4.1.1-glibc-2.5 toolchain. The
> > crosstool itself isn't a problem.
> 
> You are definitely right, but crosstool has patches as well. Therefore,
> if the crosstool gets older, you dont get the latest patches. For
> example, they are not there for glibc2.6. In that case, I may go wild by
> looking for errors in the kernel/application when it is a toolchain bug.
> 
FWIW the latest experimental gcc-4.3 is currently working ok too and there is
now even experimental support for gcj on ARM/EABI (patches only atm).


Steve


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