Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes:

> Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> On 04/19/2018 03:58 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> What would be really
>>> helpful is if the respective maintainers could encode their EXACT
>>> STEPS for building their cross compilers into some docker recipes.
>>
>> I've just re-built my alphaev67 cross-environment and recorded everything.
<snip>
>> Starting without that seed tarball is hard, as previously mentioned.  For
>> better supported platforms than alpha you can typically pull the same files
>> from e.g. debian packages or a gentoo stage3 tarball.
>
> Hmm I was hoping I could use --without-sysroot to build a gcc just for
> building glibc and then re-build gcc once glibc was boot-strapped. But
> that doesn't seem to work...
>
> Maybe for alpha we just have to accept there is a blob of sysroot to get
> the build going? Of course we should probably host that blob on qemu's
> servers somewhere...

New plan - Debian Sid has gcc-alpha-linux-gnu on account of the
unofficial Debian Alpha port.

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Alex Bennée

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