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From: Mick McCreath <Mick.McCreath@transmax.com.au>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>, Michael Zintakis	<michael.zintakis@googlemail.com>
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Subject: RE: building native cross compiler
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> From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On B=
ehalf Of Ian Lance Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2011 2:24 PM
> To: Michael Zintakis
> Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: building native cross compiler
>
> Michael Zintakis <michael.zintakis@googlemail.com> writes:
>
> > Has this been done recently? I can't believe there is no methodology
> > for this and I have to rely on a bloody script which has been last
> > updated 6 years ago!!! Unreal!
>
> Believe it.  Very few people cross-compile GNU/Linux toolchains.  The
> ones who do have all climbed the learning curve that you are on.
>
> I wonder if there is a newer crosstool script out there somewhere.
>
> Ian

The revamped tool is called crosstool-ng and is available from here:

http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool

Cheers,

Mick