From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11137 invoked by alias); 19 May 2003 23:42:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8456 invoked from network); 19 May 2003 23:41:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc53.attbi.com) (204.127.198.39) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 May 2003 23:41:06 -0000 Received: from kegel.com (c-24-126-73-164.we.client2.attbi.com[24.126.73.164]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with SMTP id <20030519234104053007ka32e>; Mon, 19 May 2003 23:41:04 +0000 Message-ID: <3EC9720B.2070602@kegel.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 23:46:00 -0000 From: Dan Kegel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: de-de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S.Zick" CC: Joe Buck , Alexandre Oliva , Joel Sherrill , Paul Koning , janis187@us.ibm.com, pbarada@mail.wm.sps.mot.com, zack@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets References: <874r3u27sm.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <20030516165454.B12185@synopsys.com> <03051917374700.01344@wolf686> In-Reply-To: <03051917374700.01344@wolf686> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01819.txt.bz2 Michael S.Zick wrote: >>>>The problem with cross build is that there is really no generic >>>>"build a cross compiler" procedure. ... >>> >>>>No one person is skilled in all those types of cross builds. I have >>>>done about 4 of them in the past year. If GCC is to have good cross >>>>building instructions, then my proposal would be to divide the >>>>instructions into categories based upon the above patterns and any >>>>others that people can identify. >>> >>>Agreed on all counts. You seem to have a great starting point. >> >>So, suppose we start a web page with Joel's categories as headings, and >>then let people fill in sections for instructions in places where they >>know the answer? We'll wind up with missing sections, but at least we'll >>have something to point people to. > > Perhaps establishing a Wiki would be the answer here. > It is such a diverse subject (cross-building) with many people having just > the bits and pieces that work for them; it sounds like an ideal subject for > a Wiki. Like, say, the one at http://billgatliff.com/twiki/bin/view/Crossgcc/WebHome ? (though I don't much like wikis, and that one's a bit out of date...) For what it's worth, over on the crossgcc mailing list, we're trying to update Bill Gatliff's toolchain build script. See also http://www.embeddedtux.org/pipermail/etux/2003-May/000018.html - Dan -- Dan Kegel http://www.kegel.com http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=78045