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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:50:30 -0400
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Subject: Re: cross-compilers
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>,
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:49, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:19:21AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:12, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2009-04-10 01:47:50 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>> >> I've started a build-bot like script for binutils + GCC from CVS/GIT.
>> >> If it builds through, I'll start uploading i686 hosted compilers
>> >> later on today.
>> >
>> > So... I've now build trunk kernel-only cross-compilers (hosted on
>> > i686) for these targets:
>> >
>> >        bfin-uclinux.tar.bz2
>>
>> we already host up-to-date Blackfin compilers on the Blackfin website:
>> http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/toolchain/frs/
>>
>> and we build for a variety of platforms ... atm that is x86, x86_64,
>> ia64, and ppc
>>
>> we also provide for simple distro integration:
>>  - Gentoo has ebuilds in-tree
>>  - deb based distros can use "deb
>> http://download.analog.com/27516/distros/debian stable main"
>>  - rpms are available at the link above (fedora/suse/etc...)
>>  - tarballs are available at the link above (everyone else)
>>
>> not sure it can get much easier than that for installing the Blackfin
>> toolchain ;)
>
> It can...
> I'm after a one-stop place where we can locate cross compilers
> for all architectures that Linux supports so it is a much simpler
> task to actaully try to build our changes for as many architectures
> as we supports.
>
> And please host them on kernel.org - preferably as an update
> of Vegards pages.

whoever is maintaining the one location should simply mirror our
tarballs (grabbing the 1 uclinux from the Debian link would be
easiest) ... unlike the random ones people are compiling and posting,
the binaries we post have gone through extensive testing -- both in
terms of included testsuites (gcc/binutils/etc...) as well as actually
building/running the kernel and userspace
-mike
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