Erik Mouw wrote:
>
> Please check the list archives, this is really a FAQ. I build one
> myself, you can get it at
>
> http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/compile-tools/
I'm downloading the i386 cross compiler as I write. Thanks for the
URL.
>
> Hmm, the GCC CVS snapshots are not suited for compiling kernels. There
> are things that are known to break. The current consensus on the
> linux-kernel mailing list is that compiling with GCC snapshots is only
> encouraged to get the kernel compatible with the compiler. Maybe
> Russell or Phil can comment on the usage of GCC snapshots on ARM?
Yes, well, it was not clear to me at first whether one needed a more recent
compiler than the current released version, to compile for a v5 ARM archetecture.
And, yes, I would tend to use a 'kernel' compiler long after the most
current release had marched on.
> > At the moment I have not got linux-2.4.0-test12 to compile completely
> > with any of my current set of tools.
>
> But does it run? The GCC snapshots are known to break the kernel in
> subtle ways.
Had I the intended target I would have attempted to run it... but given at
the moment my current problem is finding/setting-up a cross development
environment, getting anything to compile the large chunk of code
relatively cleanly, has been my task.
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