[OpenBIOS] need help building sparc32 crosstool

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Robert Reif <reif at earthlink.net> wrote:
> It's been a few years since I did any qemu and openbios hacking
> and I want to give it another try.  I'm using ubuntu 10.10 on a PC
> but my last development work was on redhat 9 so things have changed.
>
> I need to start from scratch so could I get some advice on what
> compiler and glibc version everyone is using.  I remember getting
> a working crosstool took some effort but I don't remember what I did.
>
> I assume people are still using crosstool-0.43? It that still true?
> What about crosstool-ng?  Something else?

I didn't use anything special. OpenBIOS does not need glibc or kernel
headers, so that makes things a bit simpler.

$ sparc-elf-ld -V
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18
  Supported emulations:
   elf32_sparc
   elf64_sparc
$ sparc-elf-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=sparc-elf-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/libexec/gcc/sparc-elf/4.6.0/lto-wrapper
Target: sparc-elf
Configured with: ../configure --target=sparc-elf
--enable-targets=sparc-elf --disable-nls --disable-threads
--enable-languages=c --disable-shared --disable-libssp
--disable-multilib
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.6.0 20100925 (experimental) (GCC)
$ sparc-elf-gdb -v
GNU gdb 6.8
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --target=sparc-elf".