Re: Crosstool-NG build produces all the tools except the compiler

[Mitch Frazier <mitch at comwestcr dot com>]

I will try your patches and report back.


On 4/20/2010 11:52 AM, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Hi Mitch,
> 
> 2010/4/19 Mitch Frazier <mitch@comwestcr.com>:
>>
>>> I'm trying to build an m68k-unknown-elf toolchain that will run on a
>>> Windows system.  I'm building it on openSUSE 11.2.
>>>
>>> I've installed the mingw cross compiler on my openSUSE system and
>>> created a crosstool-NG configuration for a Canadian cross:
>>>
>>>   Build on openSUSE
>>>   Host on  Windows
>>>   Target   m68k
>>>
>> p.s. I did successfully build the m68k-unknown-elf toolchain which runs
>> on Linux and include it in the PATH when I try to build the Windows
>> toolchain.
> 
> You did nothing wrong... Unfortunately the canadian build is not yet
> supported in Crosstool-ng.
> Recently I posted a series of 19 patches that made it possible to
> build exactly that what you need.
> (http://old.nabble.com/-CT-NG%3Apatch-00-19--Series-for-several-new-toolchains-and-canadian--support-td28196591.html)
> 
> These series of patches have been partially applied while it was
> tested as a whole, some rework is pending on some other patches.
> What did not help us though is that during the process of getting
> these series to be applied several other patches got merged in that
> had a huge impact on our series, with as result that we now do not
> have a working a set of patches on top of ct-ng mainline.
> 
> Further, before we can continue with this series we need to wait on
> Yann since he mentioned that he did not like the way we implemented
> certain parts and that he would provide an alternative implementation
> himself. Although this sounds good, it effectively pushed us out of
> the game... I hope Yann has a good suggestion how to continue from
> here and speed things up...
> 
> So, for the short term, if you need to have a toolchain quickly I
> would suggest to use hg to checkout the crosstool-ng tree and get to
> the status of the tree of about 9 april 2010 and apply the 19-patch
> series I posted. I rebased the patch-series to the snapshot just
> minutes before going public with the series, so it will apply on that
> snapshot.
> 
> I also noticed you used the mingw cross compiler of your distribution.
> Inside this series also support was added to build a mingw cross
> compiler toolchain with crosstool-ng itself ;-)
> 
> P.S. we also have a working tree (based on the status of 9 april 2010)
> that even supports cross-native compilations ;-)
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Remy


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