Re: Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

2005-07-06 Thread Eric Christopher
> [It's not a real scenario of course, but it does have the right flavor > of the problem I wish to solve.] > It's the day-to-day development of a fresh port that I want to speed up. > If I've gone through a run of "make check-gcc" and fixed some random > bugs, with fixes in any or all of libgloss

Re: Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

2005-07-06 Thread Doug Evans
Eric writes: > > So your target audience is "people who use newlib, use the uberbaum > > build, and who work on multiple gcc trees", right? Seems > > like such a small audience it's not likely to be widely used, > > but that's just my impression. > > I agree unfortunately. Really if you're

Re: Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

2005-07-06 Thread Eric Christopher
> So your target audience is "people who use newlib, use the uberbaum > build, and who work on multiple gcc trees", right? Seems > like such a small audience it's not likely to be widely used, > but that's just my impression. I agree unfortunately. Really if you're not wanting to have a single t

Re: Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Kegel
Joe Buck wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:49:52PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote: Building a cross compiler from scratch "just works" (as in all one has to do is "configure, make all install") if all of binutils, gcc, newlib, libgloss, libstdc++, etc. are siblings. [At least this use to "just work".]

Re: Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Buck
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:49:52PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote: > Building a cross compiler from scratch "just works" (as in all one > has to do is "configure, make all install") if all of binutils, gcc, > newlib, libgloss, libstdc++, etc. are siblings. > [At least this use to "just work".] > > The nu

Building cross-compilers with sibling package trees

2005-07-06 Thread Doug Evans
Building a cross compiler from scratch "just works" (as in all one has to do is "configure, make all install") if all of binutils, gcc, newlib, libgloss, libstdc++, etc. are siblings. [At least this use to "just work".] The number of hoops one has to go through when this isn't the case can be pain