Re: [crosstool-NG] Design discussion

[Allen Curtis <ajcurtis84 at gmail dot com>]

Can we declare that this conversation is a "Rat Hole" and should be  
terminated?


On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Le Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:11:03 +0200,
> "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> a écrit :
>
> > Just my turn to rant a little bit ;-) For many, cross-compiling can't
> > be avoided. Running under an emulator is biased. Your ./configure
> > might detect some specifics of the machine it's running on (the
> > emulator) that might prove wrong on the real hardware, Or the other
> > way around, miss some specifics of the real hardware that the
> > emulator does not provide.
>
> We happened to discuss Firmware Linux during the « Build Tools BOF »  
> at
> Embedded Linux Conference last week in San Francisco. For the  
> audience,
> Firmware Linux indeed looked like an interesting proof of concept, but
> that proof of concept would *never* deprecate the need to normal
> cross-compilers, normal cross-compiling and tools like Crosstool-NG.
>
> Reason ? Just because Firmware Linux makes the assumption that a Qemu
> version exists for each and every architecture in the world. It
> basically makes Qemu a mandatory component to be able to build code
> for a new architecture. Is Qemu available for NIOS ? For Microblaze ?
> Not that I'm aware of.
>
> Therefore, besides Firmware Linux's existence, tools like Crosstool-NG
> will always be necessary, and well-maintained, simple, tools like
> Crosstool-NG are more than welcome. Yann, I made quite an extensive
> promotion of Crosstool-NG both during my talk on Buildroot and the BOF
> on Build tools during last week conference.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas
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> consulting, training and support.
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