On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:00:24 -0800
Tim Harder wrote:

> On 2011-12-20 Tue 04:51, David Relson wrote:
> > > There is a msp430-gcc package in portage. Have you tried that ?
> > > I've once upon a time used a toolchain from:
> > > http://cdk4msp.sourceforge.net/
> > > Best regards,
> > > Maciej Grela
> 
> > In the ebuild in dev-embedded/msp430-gcc is the following line:
> 
> >    is_crosscompile || die "Only cross-compile builds are supported"
> 
> > I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it seems to mean that this
> > ebuild can only be used when cross-compiling, i.e. when building
> > gcc to _run_ on the msp430.  
> 
> > I want to build a cross-compiler, i.e. a gcc that will run on my
> > x86_64 and create code to run on the msp430.
> 
> That line means exactly what you want, i.e. you can only build
> msp430-gcc for cross-compiling from your amd64/x86/etc host to an
> msp430 target.
> 
> If you have any troubles building the msp430 toolchain in the tree
> with crossdev please file a bug and I'll look into it since I'm the
> primary maintainer for the msp430 toolchain on Gentoo.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim

Hi Tim,

Glad to make your acquaintance !

With crossdev-20111212, binutil built fine, but gcc stage 1's build
encountered an error in configure.  A bug has been filed.

Regards,

Davvid