Hi all,
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 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.
The only reason is because I use "powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc", but I agree it is much harder to produce. But I produce my cross-compile environment from debian packages, which seems simpler.
Do you know if there is a "powerpc-elf-gdb" ?
On my tests here everything seems to work fine with just the 'powerpc-elf-' prefix as far as I can tell.
If you provide a patch, I agree to apply it.
Regards, Laurent