What configuration(s) to test?

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Stubbs
Hi All, Up until now, I have had no choice but to test toolchain correctness on A8 hardware. It made sense to use the same -mfpu settings as the Linaro/Ubuntu package builds use. This did not match the policy that the interesting platform was A9-NEON, but I didn't have that option. That's ch

Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Martin
Hi all, I've had comments that getting hold of binaries for the linaro toolchain can be trick for people unfamiliar with the linaro tools. One reason is that we don't release binaries as such -- but a visitor browsing in through http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ won't discover this, and may waste

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Nicolas Pitre
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 pla

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. This comes up frequently; I'm sure many people would b

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: 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. Binaries that can be run anywhere are challenging. You either h

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.03.2011 19:02, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> 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. > > Binaries

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread John Rigby
FWIW, Michael's recipe for building here https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/cross-build has worked well for me. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 02.03.2011 19:02, Andrew Stubbs wrote: >> On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >>> Building a cross-compiler is a

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread David Gilbert
On 2 March 2011 18:44, John Rigby wrote: > FWIW, Michael's recipe for building here > https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/cross-build has worked > well for me. It's OK for people familiar with toolchains; the problem is where you have a subject specialist who knows how to write C or ARM a

RE: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Vandervennet Yves-R55763
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: Dav

Re: What configuration(s) to test?

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Hope
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > Hi All, > > Up until now, I have had no choice but to test toolchain correctness on A8 > hardware. It made sense to use the same -mfpu settings as the Linaro/Ubuntu > package builds use. This did not match the policy that the interesting > pla

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Hope
(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

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > 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. > > Binari