crosstool-0.28-rc4 + ppc970 + kernel 2.6.5

[Dan Kegel]

Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote:
> I have successfully compiled gcc 3.4 for a ppc970. The attached patch is very 
> similar to the one I have send a few weeks ago. There are two significant 
> changes:
> 
> 1) add a "ln -s libgcc.a libgcc_s.a" (cvs libc thinks it needs it)
> ...
> +cd ${PREFIX}/lib/gcc/$TARGET/3.4.0/
> +ln -s libgcc.a libgcc_eh.a
> +ln -s libgcc.a libgcc_s.a

That makes me nervous.  I suspect gcc is not being compiled properly,
and that we need to figure out how to get gcc to really build
libgcc_{eh,s}.a!

> 2) use "--enable-kernel=2.6.5". This is necessary to compile with the headers 
> from kernel 2.6.5
> 
> What do you thing about using a variable MIN_KERNEL as the parameter to 
> --enable-kernel? I.e use --enable-kernel=$MIN_KERNEL.

Something like that's probably good.

By the way, what was it that made you not want to enable all the
addons for glibc?  I guess it was the nptl vs. linuxthreads
choice?
- Dan

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