Re: crosscompiler tool chain from i386-linux to powerpc-apple andothers

[Ricardo Scachetti Pereira <scachetti at videotron dot ca>]

   Dan,

> Excellent!  Beware, though: I have only run and passed the regression 
> tests
> for ppc750 and ppc405.  I have not yet tested sparc-linux
> (though I do have an old Sparcstation earmarked for the purpose someday).
> You will need to *test* your binaries on the target platforms,
> I'm afraid.


Yes, I sure will test them. I'll let you know.

> >    The only problem I found was when the crosstool tried to download 
> > the source tarbals from ftp.gnu.org. This server seems not to be very 
> > responsive lately. So I had to download the tarbal myself from a 
> > mirror and restart the whole process for each missing tarbal. Later 
> > on I changed the ftp server on the scripts. I had no problems with 
> > the other ftp sites at all.
>
>
> What OS are you building on?  I've heard reports that
> red hat 9's wget can't fetch from ftp.gnu.org.
> If that's what's going on, does adding
> --passive-ftp
> to the wget commandline help?

I'm using RedHat 8.

Thanks for your tips :)

Ricardo




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