Re: Firmware Linux (was Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues)

2008-06-24 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 15 June 2008 23:38:12 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > Did you try my FWL project? :) > > > > http://landley.net/code/firmware > > hmm, doesnt look like supporting sysroot ... It doesn't use sysroot. It makes the compiler relocatable using an update

Re: Firmware Linux (was Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues)

2008-06-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Did you try my FWL project? :) > > http://landley.net/code/firmware hmm, doesnt look like supporting sysroot ... cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-14 Thread Shaz
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> >> I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and >> felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler >> work. I tried buildroot, scratchb

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-14 Thread Greg Ungerer
Jamie Lokier wrote: Bill Traynor wrote: Maybe I'm being dense, but what's specifically wrong with the current toolchain universe? Back in ye olde days, you could download GCC and Binutils from gnu.org, configure for whatever is your architecture, and most times it just worked. For some reason

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Greg Ungerer
Jamie Lokier wrote: Bill Traynor wrote: For some reason, that stopped a while ago, and you had to go to different places to get working basic tools. And often, the place to go wasn't clear. Different people advertised their "ARM toolchain", "m68k toolchain" etc. and they were slightly differe

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Bill Traynor wrote: > > For some reason, that stopped a while ago, and you had to go to > > different places to get working basic tools. And often, the place to > > go wasn't clear. Different people advertised their "ARM toolchain", > > "m68k toolchain" etc. and they were slightly different sets

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Contrast with kernel.org: everyone knows where to get a good working > > Linux kernel for the mainstream architectures, and the quality work > > tends to be quite good at reaching mainline there nowadays. > > ACK. But you perhaps remember the discussions on LKML where som

Firmware Linux (was Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues)

2008-06-13 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 12 June 2008 12:52:44 Shaz wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of is

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The "fixed elsewhere" is the problem. If everyone used the most current > release and worked through issues with the community, this problem would > go away. Yep, and here we're again at the point that opensource/community development and just use o

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Traynor
> Bill Traynor wrote: >> Maybe I'm being dense, but what's specifically wrong with the current >> toolchain universe? > > Back in ye olde days, you could download GCC and Binutils from > gnu.org, configure for whatever is your architecture, and most times > it just worked. Yes, the difficulty is i

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > For some reason, that stopped a while ago, and you had to go to > different places to get working basic tools. And often, the place to > go wasn't clear. Different people advertised their "ARM toolchain", > "m68k toolchain" etc. and they were slight

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Shaz
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's nice to see we have so many options and related people and pros >> to it are available around. >> >> IMO there should be some sort of effort to standardize the tool-chains >> and build environments coherently with the

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Bill Traynor wrote: > Maybe I'm being dense, but what's specifically wrong with the current > toolchain universe? Back in ye olde days, you could download GCC and Binutils from gnu.org, configure for whatever is your architecture, and most times it just worked. For some reason, that stopped a whi

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Traynor
> It's nice to see we have so many options and related people and pros > to it are available around. > > IMO there should be some sort of effort to standardize the tool-chains > and build environments coherently with the kernel. I think its a prime > time to work around all the possibilities and st

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Bill Traynor
>> Hi, >> >> I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and >> felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler >> work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with >> openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and don't know which >> will be the

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Shaz
It's nice to see we have so many options and related people and pros to it are available around. IMO there should be some sort of effort to standardize the tool-chains and build environments coherently with the kernel. I think its a prime time to work around all the possibilities and standardize s

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-13 Thread Wookey
On 2008-06-12 22:52 +0500, Shaz wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues a

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Wang, Baojun
在 2008-06-13五的 06:34 +0200,Robert Schwebel写道: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:52:44PM +0500, Shaz wrote: > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openM

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:52:44PM +0500, Shaz wrote: > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of is

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread George G. Davis
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:02:06AM +0500, Shaz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > >> There is no "one good way". I've had decent success building Dan Kegel's > >> "crosstool" in the past: http:/

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Glenn Henshaw
On 12-Jun-08, at 1:52 PM, Shaz wrote: Hi, I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and don't

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Shaz
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> There is no "one good way". I've had decent success building Dan Kegel's >> "crosstool" in the past: http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/ > > I'd also like to mention Yann's cr

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Gatliff
Shaz wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and don't know which > will

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > There is no "one good way". I've had decent success building Dan Kegel's > "crosstool" in the past: http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/ I'd also like to mention Yann's crosstool-ng :) cu -- -

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
El Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:52:44PM +0500 Shaz ha dit: > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of i

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Bill Traynor
> Hi, > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and don't know which > will be the best a

Re: Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and > felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler > work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with > openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and

Cross Compiler and loads of issues

2008-06-12 Thread Shaz
Hi, I have been following "Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)" and felt like asking that is there one good way to get a cross compiler work. I tried buildroot, scratchbox and even openMoko with openEmbedded but all of them had lots of issues and don't know which will be the best alternative.