On 5/21/07, Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not entirely true. On some targets[1] it's not possible to use a > > > bare-metal elf toolchains to compile a linux kernels. > > > i'd be interested i knowing which ones ... ive built cross-compiled > > mips kernels myself with bare toolchains and i'm pretty sure we have > > sparc/mips people doing the same > > It was mips. By "bare metal toolchains" I mean configured for mips-elf rather > than mips-linux.
i was thinking of linux targetted toolchains that lack a libc, so my usage of terms was a bit incorrect ;) > I tripped over include/asm-mips/sgidefs.h: > > /* > * Using a Linux compiler for building Linux seems logic but not to > * everybody. > */ > #ifndef __linux__ > #error Use a Linux compiler or give up. > #endif i think that's the mips guys trying to edge out random non-GNU toolchains (like the SGI ones) and simply not knowing (or caring) that things like mips-elf-* no longer work -mike _______________________________________________ uClibc mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uclibc
