[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologize if the list finds this off topic, but I'm at a > loss of who to > ask the question and thought this would be a good place to > start. Our > target is an MPC8347E PowerQUICC II Pro, and we're using the > latest kernel > (2.6.25). We started this project by building on x86 and doing > cross-compiling to the powerpc target. As the project > progressed and we > started adding applications we found that we couldn't cross-compile > postgress among other things. So we switched to native > compilation on the > target. Problem is, it's extreamly slow. Now our idea is to get our > hands on a PowerPC based Mac, load it up with Ubuntu and do > native builds > on that. The question is, which Mac to get? The concern is > this: a G5 is > 64-bit but the 8347E is 32-bit. If we do our compiles on a G5 is it > really a 'native' compile or is it a cross-compile and we're > back in the > same boat as we were with the x86? Should we use a G4 instead? > > Thanks for any advice or pointers to other places where I can find > information.
We use a dual G5 to do the exact same thing. We have a compiler buildt on our target board (Freescale 8280), and on the G5 we make sure that this compiler is being used (by chrooting into a copy of the filesystem used on the target). Then we compile all our apps . Only thing we have to do speciial, is to add --build=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu --host=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu to the ./configure cammand line. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
