From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25567 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Mar 2003 03:33:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29867 invoked from network); 20 Mar 2003 03:33:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3E79369C.7050706@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:33:48 -0800 From: Zach Welch Organization: www.gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030318 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Gordon CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030317104800.0d7293db.mark.gt@flash-gordon.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030317104800.0d7293db.mark.gt@flash-gordon.me.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.71.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cross-compiler - cross compilation to other *nix variants X-Archives-Salt: 3d1a7680-de11-48fd-a29e-cc10d51ae163 X-Archives-Hash: ac6a7025587a5c62ce92e212d977b4c8 Mark Gordon wrote: > Looking in bugzilla I see that people are working on cross-compiling to > Linux on other processors and mingw for Windows. Is anyone looking at > cross-compiling to other unix variants? I'm particularly interested in > targeting AIX and SCO. > >>>From a brief look, I think the method would be: > 1) Copy the libraries and headers from the target OS into appropriate > directories on the host. Possibly an ebuild that tells you how to create > suitable tarballs on the target, like the Sun-java ebuild tells you to > download the tarball? > > 2) Build cross versions of binutils & gcc using the cross ebuilds > currently under development. > > If this sounds about right, I should be able to steal the odd hour of > company time here and there to work on it, now that my desktop in the > office runs Gentoo. For those that would like to follow the cross-compiling efforts, visit the following URLs, or come hunt us down on irc.freenode.net in #gentoo-arm or #gentoo-embedded. We'll be looking to find experienced cross-compiler testers soon, so stay tuned. http://cvs.gentoo.org/~zwelch/ http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aiken/ Cheers, Zach Welch Gentoo ARM Developer Superlucidity Services -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list