Re: Help w/ gcc cross build failing

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Jon Watson wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand how to use newlib per your suggestion (I've never built GCC before)... The build is failing in the bootstrap target of the
> actual crosscompiler build - I'm not building genmodes.o for use on the final powerpc target, I'm still trying to bootstrap GCC 3.4.1 and build the
> crosscompiler itself. 
>
> The crossgcc/GCC FAQs & web sites I've read say to 1) build the bin-utils 
> (for the target), 2) the compiler (GCC), and 3) build newlib or glibc for 
> my target. I'm still on step 2.
>
> Do you mean that I need to build newlib for a cygwin PC host/target and then 
> before build GCC 3.4.1 (I would have to reconfigure/rebuild everything)?

No.  Jay was right to point out that you are wrong to use 'make bootstrap'
when building a crosscompiler.  Try his script, which iirc properly
builds a gcc/newlib crosstoolchain.
- Dan

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