Hi -

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:37:41PM +0100, Michael Ambrus wrote:
> I'm new to sid and I'm having some problems building the project from
> CVS sources.

Welcome!

> My first attempt was with a cross-compiler which worked. except that
> the I couldn't get the simulation to work properly (when setting CPU
> registers in the simulated code and then queried the same with GDB,
> the registers would still have the value 0).

Are you sure you had gdb connected properly (target remote ...) and
all?  Which target?

> I thought if not setting --target, it would make it work better.

Actually, that should not improve this situation.

> The documentation says that if --target is not set, sid will try to
> build all the available CPU's.

That's correct.

> What I'm not clear about is if one needs a cross compilers or not, and
> in the case one does - would that be for every possible CPU sid
> supports?

No, we don't run cross-compilers during a sid build.  Only in order to
build programs that run on the various cpu models would one need them.

> [...]
> A list of supported main architectures would be helpful.

See the sid/components/CATALOG file.

> Hers comes the lines where the build breaks:
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `sh64-elf-sid', needed by `all-am'.  
> The ChangeLog mentions  'sh-elf-sid,sh5-elf-sid,sh64-elf-sid: New
> files' so I'm guessing the files were just not committed yet.

That's probably right, it must be an oversight.

- FChE