(top posting as summarising) It's funny how things happen at the same time. I've been asked a few times about how to compile Linaro GCC so I started this page a few days ago: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Using
The goal is to describe how to build the toolchain outputs such as GCC and GDB in common configurations such as native or cross. I see four classes of users: 1. Toolchain hackers who know how to build the product and start from source 2. Mid-level engineers who have experience with Unix tools and want to know how to build from source 3. Integrators who want a supported build script that automates everything but that they can customise 4. End users who just want a binary (1) is fine as they look after themselves. (2) will be covered by the 'Using' pages. (3) is along the lines of my cross-build[1] Makefile. (4) is in Marcin's queue[2], but there's no technical reason that Linaro couldn't use the scripts from Marcin or item 3 to do an official binary tarball that targets the Linaro evaluation builds. Note that we're not set up to support end users directly so having a product like ARM's DS-5 between the working group and end users would be good. This is all new, unplanned work. I'm going to do (3) in the background and turn it into a product as it will save me time overall, but we should discuss 2, 3, and 4 for the next cycle. Yves, can I suggest you bring this up at the next TSC meeting? -- Michael [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/cross-build [2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-linaro-n-cross-compilers On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Vandervennet Yves-R55763 <r55...@freescale.com> wrote: > I agree with Nicolas' proposal to deliver a cross-compiler. A lot of people > request this > > Yves > > -----Original Message----- > From: linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org > [mailto:linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Pitre > Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:52 AM > To: Dave Martin > Cc: linaro-toolchain > Subject: Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > >> On the other hand, the cross toolchain packages are likely to be of >> interest to such visitors, but aren't obviously advertised -- maybe >> I'm looking in the wrong place, but if so then new visitors to the >> linaro pages are likely to look in the wrong place too. >> >> Would it make sense to explain the situation more prominently so that >> visitors know what to expect? > > I would think so. > >> Something along the lines of "if you use distro x revision y, these >> cross-compiler packages are available" and "if you need the tools for >> some other environment, you need to download the source and build it >> for yourself". > > Building a cross-compiler is already a challenge in itself. Would be > better to build a version that can be installed anywhere like the > CodeSourcery releases and offer that as a tar download. _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
