Re: Error building toolchain for ARM cortex A8

[Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Michael Eager <eager@eagerm.com> wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 01:40 PM, Bryan Hundven wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Michael Hope<michael.hope@linaro.org>
>> ?wrote:
>>>
>>> On 15 March 2012 07:10, Michael Eager<eager@eagerm.com> ?wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 03/05/2012 01:47 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric, All,
>>>>>
>>>>> Which looks pretty obvious: hard-float are not possible for VFP.
>>>>> Although
>>>>> this is theorically possible, gcc-4.4 (and all other versions, AFAIK)
>>>>> do
>>>>> not support building hard-float for VFP.
>>>>>
>>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Build with soft-float.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I ran into this problem as well. ? There ought to be a configuration
>>>> option which selects the ARM processor version and passes the correct
>>>> options to gcc configure so that the default options do create a
>>>> broken tool chain.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, I'm late to this thread. ?GCC 4.5 and later support the hard
>>> float ABI on the Cortex-As with VFPv3. ?I think 4.4 does as well.
>>> What was the problem?
>>
>>
>> He's building 4.4.6.
>
>
> I saw the scripts/addToolVersion.sh script and added gcc-4.6.3.
> But when I run "ct-ng menuconfig" this is not an option for GCC.
> How do I make this show up in menuconfig?

You need CT_EXPERIMENTAL=y

>
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