Unfortunately the bug was filed on a machine which now runs edgy, and hence the relevant configuration regarding my system at the time isn't available.
It looks like this package will be removed from Debian shortly. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392970 and http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/toolchain-source.html If I may generalize this bug away from this specific package, the problem is that building a cross-compilation toolchain on Ubuntu/Debian is not an "out-of-the-box" experience. Apparently the current direction for upstream is to try to make the gcc source package able to build any set of toolchain necessary. There is a debian/README.cross in the gcc source package (last time I looked into this I was working with etch gcc-4.1-4.1.1ds1), but the basic problem is that the debian package only supports debian ARCHs, and not all GNU ARCHs. Hence there is some support for building arm-linux using the gcc source package (which still didn't work out of the box IIRC), but none for arm-elf. (in fact, for basic ARCH-linux builds one can try to use the .debs built by emdebian). So I apologize that this is becoming a bit of a rant, and that it's mostly directed to upstream instead of Ubuntu, but given Ubuntu's ability to focus on usability perhaps this problem could be addressed from this community also. -- gcc built by toolchain source depends on gcc-3.4-base (< 3.4.5) https://launchpad.net/bugs/49327 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
