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

[Stefan Reinauer]

On 11/25/09 1:03 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> 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" ?
>   
I've been building powerpc-elf tool chains with our small multi platform
cross compiler script:

http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/browser/trunk/util/crossgcc

and it produces powerpc-elf-gdb ....

Stefan


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