[Buildroot] Anyone have *working* ARM(9) toolchain/cross compi ler with buildroot?

[Ulf Samuelsson]

>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> In my desperation, this is my first message to the buildroot community - I
>> don't have too much experience with cross compiling, but enough to get
>> around. I'm having a terrible time getting buildroot to finish *anything* I
>> give it. It always fails on one thing or another, and I'm beginning to get
>> very frustrated after days of trying.
>>
>> At first, I used a Debian build, which failed miserably at every turn,
>> despite installing package after package. So, I turned to a Fedora Core 7
>> install, and things looked up. In fact, buildroot completed if:
>>
>> I selected my correct ARM --> arm920t, soft float, and ONLY C library
>> support, no C++/GCJ, and gcc 3.4.6. This worked well enough, I was able to
>> compile JamVM, and even Jikes to compile the classpath. But of course, as
>> would be expected, while JamVM runs well enough to give me a proper "usage
>> information" screen, it won't run anything.
>>
>> This leads me to need gcj, because there exists no competent JVM for ARM
>> that will compile properly, apparently. but whenever I try to run buildroot
>> with c++/gcj enabled, it just won't work. Can anyone tell me if/how they got
>> an ARM implementation to run? I've tried all the gcc versions possible (each
>> one comes up with different errors), and I've tried snapshot vs. 0.9.29 of
>> uclibc, etc., all to no avail. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,
>>
>> -Adrian
>>


I use generic arm, OABI, gcc-4.2.1, binutils-2.17 and uclibc 0.9.29 with NWFPE instead of softfloat
and this compiles OK, 


Soft float which is notoriously bad for ARM.
I mostly avoid compiling anything but gcc and g++, since compiling java is *VERY* time consuming.

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson