reporting crosstool success from mac osx -> arm-linux for nslu2

[Dan Kegel]

Randy Melton wrote:
> First thanks for your work on crosstool!

You're welcome!

> I spent a week and a half trying to manually build "the latest"
> gcc/glibc cross for arm-linux running on a mac os-x.  (I'm still
> digging through bugs there)  using what I learned I was able to get
> crosstool-0.28-rc35 to build on my second attempt.  (My test was a
> simple hello world, not exactly exhaustive.)
> 
> My directions are on the nslu2 wiki site at:
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/CompileCrossToolOnOSX

Hey, that's nice.  I'll happily link to or incorporate that.
I suspect, though, that using fink (or that other
package) would be easier for most people.
That's the approach I mention in my MacOSX notes
http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc37/doc/crosstool-howto.html#buildnotes
(did you see that?)

> When I find time I'd like to submit some glibc configure patches.  Not
> so much to
> solve configure problems, but to avoid the "hang forever on sed" and
> "assume readelf
> exists" type of things...

Sounds like a good idea.   Maybe you could contribute them
to crosstool first, then once they get a good shakedown there,
submit them directly to the glibc project?

> I couldn't find any instructions for the mac so i don't know if I'm
> duplicating any efforts. If you have any comments I'd appreciate
> hearing about them.

I think the crosstool-howto.html in rc35 was just as up to date
as the one I link to above.  Did you notice the MacOSX section in it?
- Dan


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