To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compilers
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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	<20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:50:08 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com> (Alex Chiang's message of "Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600")
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Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> writes:

> * Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>:
>> Don't know if this answers your problem, but I use the tools from
>> emdebian and they do not suffer from the problems you list below.
>
> Wow, this seems _much_ simpler. Once you get the toolchain
> installed, all you have to do is set ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
> appropriately?
>
> I guess the question remains for Andrew. Since I pretty much did
> all the work needed to update his cross-compiler repo, is there
> still value in it?
>
> Or shall we just recommend emdebian to everyone? :)

SUSE also has cross-gcc-* rpms. Typically for icecream, but they're
relatively easy to extract into native format.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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