[crosstool-NG] Design discussion

[Thomas Charron]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> Crosstool-NG seems to be aimed at reverse engineering the specific cross
> compiler variants used to build existing binary root filesystems, so you can
> extend those root filesystems without replacing any of the existing binaries,
> or having to statically link your new additions.

  And those of us who are caring about bare metal?

> So with crosstool-NG, you can't really ask "what's the toolchain for PPC 440"
> because it's capable of producing over 100 of them _just_for_ppc_440_.  (4
> binutils versions, times 9 gcc versions, times 16 Linux versions, without
> even enabling the obsolete or experimental options.  Then there's whether to
> target Linux or bare metal, whether to use sjlj exceptions or dwarf2, and so
> on.)
> My project assumes that "what's the toolchain for PPC 440" should have a
> simple answer, including a URL where you can download the prebuilt binary.

  There is no single toolchain.  That's an assumption that works for
*your* environment.

-- 
-- Thomas

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