Re: Anyone cross-bootstrap a GCC compiler onto a linux board?

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Yves Rutschle wrote:
> native compiling is indeed a much, much easier option when
> available. What we ended up doing here was just using a
> distribution: download Debian's debootstrap, install a
> Debian, configure the network, and go:
> apt-get install gcc
> And voilà, you have a working native development system.

I'm planning on doing something similar, but will have
to compile all the packages myself (there aren't any
debian packages prebuilt for ppc405 :-()
I'll probably cross-build the packages, but let users
who hate cross-compiling do all their compiling natively
(sometimes it's just easier to give people what they
ask for instead of educating them...)

> This also has its problems: we normally run busybox/uClibc,
> and then chroot in that Debian. Ideally, we'd want a
> uClibc-based Debian... but I don't think that exists. Maybe
> that's where "compile-everything" distributions like Gentoo
> would come in handy, but we haven't had time to look into
> that yet.

I looked into this recently.  Gentoo isn't too cross-compile
friendly, so it's a bit hard to bootstrap on strange processors.
lnx-bbc and Rock Linux might be helpful here, they seem to
be a bit simpler and cross-compile friendlier, but I saw
problems with each of them.   I'm interested in hearing
what others who go this route find.
- Dan

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