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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:36:41 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering
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To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compilers
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Alex Chiang wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
>> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600 Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> * 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?
>> We would benefit very much from having someone who actually maintains a
>> suite of cross-compilers for kernel developers.
>  
> Ok, I'll work with Vegard on this.
> 
> Thanks.

Thank you.  We should be able to have these tools
without using any specific $distro.

-- 
~Randy
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