Re: 1.4.0 "arm not supported" !

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

"ng" (Peter?),
All,

On Thursday 30 April 2009 08:56:23 ng@piments.com wrote:
> [ALL  ]    checking build system type... i686-build_pc-linux-gnu
> [ALL  ]    checking host system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
> [ERROR]    checking sysdep dirs... configure: error: The arm is not 
> supported.
> [ERROR]    Build failed in step 'Installing C library headers'
> it seems odd that I am having so many errors since updating to 1.4.0 , 

Here's what I see on a fresh untar of the 1.4.0 release tarball, in the
C library menu:

--8<-- Begin quote --8<--
      C library (glibc)  --->
      glibc version (2.9)  --->
      Retrieval method (Released tarball)  --->
      *** glibc/eglibc common options ***
  ()  extra config (NEW)
  ()  Extra config params (READ HELP) (NEW)
  ()  extra target CFLAGS (NEW)
  ()  gcc extra flags (NEW)
  [ ] Use the ports addon (NEW)
  ()  Extra addons (NEW)
      Minimum supported kernel version (Same as kernel headers (default))  --->
      *** Common C library options ***
      Threading implementation to use: (nptl)  --->
--8<-- End quote --8<--

So, clearly, the "Use the ports addon" entry is there.

The only glitch you will encounter is that, for glibc 2.8 and above,
there are *no* released tarballs for the ports addon, so you'll have
to use: "CVS checkout" as the "Retrieval method".

> my initial installation of ct-ng 1.3.9 went beautifully and compiled the 

There was no such thing as crosstool-NG-1.3.9. The latest release in the
1.3 series was 1.3.4.

> I wanted to use the versions posted by Alexandre Biggin as being a 

Please do him a favour: his name is BIGGA, not BIGGIN.

Also, in the documentation, it is stated that you can use the
pre-configured toolchains. The list of available toolchains, besides
being available on the site, can be obtained with:
  ct-ng list-samples

To set-up for such a toolchain, call something like:
  ct-ng the-tool-chain-name
  ct-ng build

You can get some help with:
  ct-ng help

and the README points you to reading the files docs/overview.txt and
docs/known-issues.txt .

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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