Re: Crosstool 0.28 failure building mipsel on cygwin

[dank04 at kegel dot com]

> First of all, thanks to all of the folks who are trying to make building
> a gcc cross compiler easier. I told my coworkers that I was looking into
> building a gcc cross compiler and I got looks of amusement mixed with
> horror.  I've spent the last few days wrestling with old and obsolete
> instructions:
>
> http://www.onkelinx.com/agenda/compiling_toolchain.html
> http://www.village.org/villagers/imp/build.html
> http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs350/common/make-linux-gcc.html

Perhaps you could help by writing to those sites' admins and
asking them to link to the crosstool page...

> ... This configuration is mentioned in demo-mipsel.sh as working with the
> Linksys WRT54G router and that configuration is also mentioned as being
> good at http://kegel.com/crosstool/#results.  However, it's failing in a
> way that's very similar to the failures mentioned on the crosstool build
> logs page...
> /opt/crosstool/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.2.3-glibc-2.2.3/mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu/include/asm/user.h:12:21:
> asm/reg.h: No such file or directory

Once again, a web search finds the solution in one try!  I searched
for "asm/reg.h: No such file or directory", and hit number three,
http://www.webservertalk.com/message426280-2.html, is my reply
to someone else with the same problem.  I wrote:

>It looks like when I moved to linux-2.6.8 across the board, I
>caused problems for people trying to build that old configuration.
>So the fix is to edit gcc-3.2.3-glibc-2.2.3.dat and set it
>back to linux-2.4.21, probably.  Let me know if that helps.

And the fellow wrote back:

> Incidentally you were right. I did fix it and it worked.
> [So did reverting to one of your earlier release candidates.]

Definitely something to fix for the next rc.  Sorry I've been so out
of it.
- Dan


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