linux-kernel - Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} _

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Message-ID: <20080502081056.GA2003@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Fri, 2 May 2008 11:10:56 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, mingo@...e.hu, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, vegard.nossum@...il.com
Subject: Re: huge gcc 4.1.{0,1} __weak problem

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:59:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 16:24:47 -0700
> Tom Rini <trini@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:33:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > Drat.  There go my alpha, i386, m68k, s390, sparc and powerpc
> > > cross-compilers.  Vagard, save me!
> > > 
> > > Meanwhile I guess I can locally unpatch that patch.
> > 
> > I know I'll come off as an ass, but you can't make new ones with 4.1.2?
> > It's not like we're talking about gcc 2.95/96 fun here :)
> 
> Honestly, I nearly died when I built all those cross-compilers.  Sooooooo
> many combinations of gcc/binutils/glibc refused to work for obscure
> reasons.  Compilation on x86_64 just didn't work at all and I ended up
> having to build everything on a slow i386 box, etc, etc.  The stream of
> email to Dan got increasingly strident ;)
>...

I have my binutils 2.18.50.0.6 / gcc 4.3 based cross toolchains for an 
i386 host here (no glibc included since I'm using them only for kernel 
testcompiles).

If you are using an x86 machine I can rebuild them without -march=k8 
and give you a copy.

cu
Adrian


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