[uClibc] FW: MontaVista Cross Compiler

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Fri Mar 19 18:59:12 UTC 2004


On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:02:29PM -0500, Foy, Patrick wrote:
> 
> I recently discovered that uClibc no longer uses the toolchain wrapper
> approach and instead it is recommended that I build the toolchains for
> uClibc using the source on the website.
> 
> In my previous configuration, I built uClibc 0.9.19 with xscale cross
> compiler tools from Monta Vista (xscale_be).  Since this version used
> the wrapper approach, I could still use the MontaVista tools to produce
> the uClibc binaries and library.
> 
> I want to use the MontaVista toolchain because MontaVista added some
> optimizations for the Xscale platform.  Is it possible to use the
> MontaVista toolchain and still use the uCilbc library?  (I have a
> feeling that the answer is no)

If you want to continue using the gcc wrapper, then just forward-port
it and try it.  If it works for you, then great.  If it doesn't, then
don't ask us.  That's what "We no longer support the gcc wrapper" means.

Manuel



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