From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31432 invoked by alias); 16 May 2003 22:51:21 -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 31395 invoked from network); 16 May 2003 22:51:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 May 2003 22:51:20 -0000 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (aoliva.cipe.redhat.com [10.0.1.10]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h4GMpIK28932; Fri, 16 May 2003 18:51:18 -0400 Received: from free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br [127.0.0.1]) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4GMpHMU019400; Fri, 16 May 2003 19:51:17 -0300 Received: (from aoliva@localhost) by free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h4GMpFqU019185; Fri, 16 May 2003 19:51:15 -0300 To: Joel Sherrill Cc: 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> <200305161631.h4GGV7C08992@hyper.wm.sps.mot.com> <3EC520FE.99D602D9@OARcorp.com> <20030516125107.A8214@us.ibm.com> <16069.25021.794443.678502@pkoning.dev.equallogic.com> <3EC565E1.618A3C6F@OARcorp.com> From: Alexandre Oliva Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:56:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3EC565E1.618A3C6F@OARcorp.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg01641.txt.bz2 On May 16, 2003, Joel Sherrill wrote: > The problem with cross build is that there is really no generic > "build a cross compiler" procedure. Excellent point. > 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. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer