crosstool OS X host -> i686/linux target ?

[Allan Clark]

Marius Groeger wrote:

>Bill,
>
>On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Is anyone using crosstool to build an OS X-hosted toolchain that
>>targets
>>i686-pc-linux-gnu?
>>
>>Here is has far as I have gotten:
>>    
>>
>...
>  
>
>>checking version of as... 1.38, bad
>>checking for ld... ld
>>checking version of ld... v. ?.??, bad
>>    
>>
>...
>  
>
>>configure: error:
>>*** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
>>    
>>
>
>It looks like OS X's binutils are very ancient. Updating them should
>get you further. If OS X doesn't easily permit this, you may have to
>build them yourself and install them where they don't clash with the
>original ones. Chances are you'll need to update your host gcc in that
>case as well.
>
>Seems puzzling to me that OS X brings such ancient tools. Anyone
>knows why this is?
>
These are not ancient, just versioned differently, and do not respond to 
the "--version" arguments.  In fact, the problem also exists with awk, I 
think, wherein awk will hang until given data to process since it 
ignores the --version parameter yet waits for input to filter.

I made some changes for crosstool to address these, and I thought I sent 
them to Dan, but if they aren't there, then there's a disconnect.  I 
still owe some Sendmail changes before I do anything more..

The as and ld version checks can be skipped; my patch basically causes 
the builds to skip these checks.

Allan


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