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. -- Alex Bennée