On czw, 2011-03-03 at 09:04 +1300, Michael Hope wrote: > 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? >[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/cross-build >[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-linaro-n-cross-compilers We need to make a product from your makefile and host it in official bzr branch. I have own copy [3] which has some improvements (you got it by email). Current situation is like this: 1. Debian users can grab non-Linaro cross toolchains from Emdebian team 2. Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 users have Linaro cross toolchain in archive 3. Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 users can use Linaro toolchain backport PPA [4] which contains natty versions (will be updated in next week) 4. We can build binary tarballs using Michael's makefile [1][3] but resulting toolchain requires some host libraries. In OpenEmbedded we solved this problem by shipping all of them in tarball. But this would require some hacking time. [3] https://code.launchpad.net/~hrw/+junk/cross-build [4] https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/toolchain _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
