[parisc-linux] Re: Fw: Another problem with making things static

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:25:52 -0700 Grant Grundler <grundler at parisc-linux.org> wrote:

> > My attempt to build a working parisc cross-compiler failed, which doesn't help.
> 
> I appreciate your attempt to build parisc-linux.
> Could you post which source tree and which build command line you used?

It was maybe a year back - I spent a couple of days wrestling with
crosstool, ended up with _some_ useful crosscompilers (alpha, arm, i386,
ia64, m68k, mips, s390, sparc, sparc64 and x86_64).  parisc was one of the
ones which I gave up on but I do not have a record of what the problem was,
sorry.  It would have been a toolchain problem, not a kernel problem.

The most usual failure mode was simply inability to find any combination of
gcc/binutils/glibc which could be compiled.

> I'm pretty sure this can be fixed.
> We've used cross compilers in the past so I know it's worked before.

I say this a lot, but...  It is in the interests of arch maintainers to
help others to build cross-compilers.  If someone were to prepare a web
page (or even a script) which could be used to generate a kernel
cross-compilation environment for parisc then the parisc maintainers would
see a lot less breakage.

For one, I do allmodconfig on all architectures on all patches I get (and
that includes all the git trees).  If stuff breaks, the breaker gets to
hear about it, before it gets merged.