Re: [gentoo-embedded] Building native arm gcc toolchain

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 30 June 2005 03:10 am, Brian Koropoff wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >On Friday 24 June 2005 08:19 pm, Brian Koropoff wrote:
> >>USE="-* arm" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=arm CBUILD=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> >>CHOST=armeb-unknown-linux-gnu CTARGET=armeb-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>ROOT=/image/armeb-unknown-linux-gnu-devimage emerge sys-devel/gcc
> >
> >this looks correct but what you're trying to do isnt something ive tested
> > so i havent gotten around to making sure it works ;)
> >-mike
>
> If I wanted to try to get this to work, where should I start looking?
> What part of the ebuild/eclass might be at fault?

all gcc logic is handled in toolchain.eclass now ... nothing should need to be 
done in the ebuild

the functions you should review is gcc_src_compile() and anything it calls 
(like gcc_do_configure and gcc_do_make)

 It seems to work just
> fine doing a manual configure with the plain gcc source, so it's likely
> some patch or idiosyncrasy of the way the ebuild sets up the build.

wouldnt be surprised

> My
> goal is to be able to populate the root fs entirely with portage, so I'm
> willing to poke around a bit to try to get it working.

that is a goal i'd like to see attainted too :)

if you're working on gcc does that binutils cross built just fine for you ?
-mike
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