crosstool-0.28-rc16: compiling linux-2.6.6 on Mac OS X

[Dan Kegel]

Martin Schaffner wrote:
> Today I sucessfully tested crosstool-0.28-rc16 with the following command:
> 
> export TARBALLS_DIR=/Volumes/ext/src/ RESULT_TOP=/opt/crosstool 
> GCC_LANGUAGES="c,c++"; eval `cat powerpc-750.dat 
> gcc-3.4.0-glibc-2.3.2.dat` LINUX_DIR=linux-2.6.6 
> BINUTILS_DIR=binutils-2.14.90.0.5  sh all.sh --notest
> 
> I set BINUTILS_DIR to an old version because of the following issue when 
> compiling linux:
> 
>   http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2004-05/msg00064.html
> 
> Maybe crosstool should contain a patch against this problem?

I guess I could include
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2004-05/msg00071.html
for binutils-2.15.  Hrmph.  Does that work for you?

> I had to apply the following patch to linux-2.6.6 for it to compile on 
> Mac OS X.
> Unfortunately, it is quite OS X-specific, so I won't even try to get it
> included into the official tree...

bleah!  (Say, did you come up with that patch, or is it floating around
on the linux-ppc mailing list?)
- Dan

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