which toolchain to build u-boot for TQM860?

which toolchain to build u-boot for TQM860?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  to make a long story short, i need to upgrade u-boot on a number of
TQM860 boards on which the current version of u-boot is a positively
ancient 0.4.0.  i was handed the following powerpc toolchain for the
recompile of u-boot:

$ powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc --version
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc (crosstool-NG-1.10.0) 4.4.5
...
$

but this is what happened when i tried to configure and build the
current git clone of u-boot (CROSS_COMPILE is set properly in shell
environment):

$ make TQM860L_config
$ make all
... much snipping here ...
u-boot.lds:76 cannot move location counter backwards (from 40008604 to 40008000)
make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
$

  a quick google pulled this up as an explanation for why that would
happen during the u-boot *porting* process:

http://www.denx.de/wiki/publish/DULG/DULG-tqm8xxl.html#Section_14.2.13.

and asking on the u-boot list got a reply from wolfgang of "Your tool
chain is broken / generates inefficient code."

  the recommendation for a proper toolchain was this ELDK version:

ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/eldk/5.0/targets/powerpc-softfloat/eldk-eglibc-i686-powerpc-toolchain-gmae-5.0.tar.bz2

which i'm about to try just to see if the build works.  is there an
appropriate ct-ng toolchain i can try as well just as a backup?
thanks.

rday

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