OS X -> x86 success!

[Nathaniel Gray]

Just so you know, once I installed gnu sed and gawk (using Fink) my  
problems went away.  I built the target gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2.dat from  
demo-i686.sh without trouble.

Thanks for your help,
-Nathan

On Sep 2, 2004, at 6:09 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Nathaniel Gray wrote:
>> I'm trying to build a compiler I can run on my OS X machine that  
>> builds Linux-x86 binaries.  I don't care which version of gcc, glibc,  
>> etc. I end up with, I just want anything that works.
>> I've tried the following targets from demo-i686.sh:
>>     i686.dat gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.3.dat
>>     i686.dat gcc-2.95.3-glibc-2.2.2.dat
>
> Which version of crosstool?  0.28-rc35 is the latest, and you
> probably shouldn't use anything older.
>
>> And I hit the following problems:
>> 1. wget just doesn't work for ftp on my machine.  I don't know why  
>> not.  curl works.
>
> Did you read  
> http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc35/doc/crosstool- 
> howto.html#mac ?
>
> Where did you get your wget?  The one from fink seemed to work for me.
>
>> 2. The configure scripts just don't work well.  For example, they try  
>> to test for the version of "as" by running "as --version", which a)  
>> doesn't work and b) blocks waiting for input.  Ditto for sed.  Worse,  
>> there seems to be no way to get OS X sed to print its version!
>
> Now I know you didn't read  
> http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.28-rc35/doc/crosstool- 
> howto.html#mac
> as it tells you explicitly you need gnu sed.
>
>> 3. Having fixed the above problems I got an error "GLIBC must be  
>> built with GNU CC".  This despite the fact that the compiler in  
>> question was the gcc compiler I just built!
>
> If updating to the latest crosstool and installing the recommended gnu  
> tools
> doesn't fix this for you, we'll deal with this last problem.
>
>> At this point I gave up.  Has anybody had success building such a  
>> cross-compiler?
>
> Yes, but I haven't tried lately.
> - Dan
>
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>
>
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