gcc suite (was: Re: [ILUG] compiling ancient kernels)

[Kenn Humborg]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:40:12PM +0100, kevin lyda wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:28:40PM +0100, John Moran wrote:
> > You need even older than that,
> > gcc 2.5.8 or newer, but not 2.6 or newer
> 
> on that topic, has anyone seen a gcc cross compile suite?  even something
> just for the free unicies and their platforms.  just so that if i wrote
> some application and i wanted to give it wide distribution, i could
> cross compile it to the different platforms.  though i suppose you'd
> want to do packaging for each of the platforms too.

Closest thing I can think of is the SourceForge compile farm.
It doesn't cover every plaftorm though.

I think it's actually quite tricky to setup a full cross-compile
environment.  You need to have all shared libraries that you need
available on your build host and there are a lot of things that
assume that build-host == target-arch.

I know that Andy and Dave ended up compiling most of the Linux/VAX
root filesystem natively rather than try to cross compile them
all.

Later,
Kenn