Newlib for powerpc

[Tom Hoover]

Subject: Newlib for powerpc
Author:  root <root@larry> at INTERNET
Date:    3/4/97 2:24 PM


 >I've used Newlib (1.7) with great success with the m68k and
>hitachi SH processors.  However, when I attempted to build for 
>powerpc-elf32 it complains ppc-asm.h does not exist when comiling 
>setjmp.S in the newlib-1.7.0/newlib/libc/machine/powerpc directory.

There is a patch for this problem, find the file:
        newlib-1.7.0+float+ppc-asm.tar.gz 


>  Modifying the makefile in that directory to avoid building setjmp.S 
>(appears to only be necessary for HP) allows the build to proceed until 
>it gets to the libgloss, whereupon it comes up with the following:

< ... bunches deleted ... >


copy the files config.sub and config.guess from the newlib root directory 
into the libgloss directory. 


>Larry Battraw
>(larry@cicdphx.com)

Tom Hoover
Software Engineer
TelePath Instruments