Pete, On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Pete Popov wrote:
> Bradley D. LaRonde wrote: > > The reason why I ask is that I've spent a lot of time trying to build a gcc > > 3.0 / glibc 2.2.3 mipsel cross-toolchain and I am still not done. But, > > building toolchains isn't what I want to spend my time doing. I think there > > must be more people like me that just want to cross-build their apps. Will > > every one of us spend time building our own toolchains? Seems like a waste > > of time. The learning curve is steep enough, not to mention the iteration > > time wasted in mistakes. > > In the past I've simply used toolchains built by other people. I would like > > to continue this tradition. :-) > So why not download the MontaVista MIPS Journeyman CD and install the > cross toolchain? All of the mvista packages are cross built and the > cross toolchain is quite up to date. The Journeyman CD includes the > native toolchain as well, for those who insist on natively building > packages. Using the cross tools you can rebuild the mvista packages > easily from the source rpms. Doing that on a 1.2G x86 cpu sure beats an > old 100MHz 4400. > I'm not sure why so many people are trying to build their own cross > toolchain when someone else has already done it. The fact that you say 'source rpms' here seems to be a strong hint why. RPMs aren't the most useful thing in the world to those using Debian as their development platform, as I would suspect many of those on the debian-mips mailing list are doing. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
