Re: [OpenBIOS] PPC cross-compiler defaults to 'powerpc-linux-gnu-' prefix

[Segher Boessenkool]

> While setting up a PPC cross-compiler environment for OpenBIOS, I
> noticed that the default cross-compiler prefix is set to
> 'powerpc-linux-gnu-' as opposed to 'powerpc-elf-'.

Is there any reason you want -elf instead of -eabi? :-)
> Is there any particular reason that we need the linux platform version,
> instead of the elf version which is used by SPARC? The reason I ask is
> that the Linux platform version is much much harder to compile as you
> need an extra set of glibc headers and have to bootstrap the gcc build
> by hand in order to produce the working final compiler.

Use --without-headers, and maybe some of the --disable-* flags,
and you don't need glibc (or any other C library).  Oh, and
--enable-languages=c of course.

Segher