On Mon 26 May, Dan Kegel wrote: > I will post my scripts at kegel.com once I've debugged them a bit > more. They are a basic framework for building a cross toolchain, plus > a way of automatically applying the appropriate platform-specific > patches,
That sounds exactly like Debian's toolchain-source package. Take a look at that: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/toolchain-source/toolchain-source_3.0.4-1.tar.gz The problem with this was that getting one set of source and patches that worked for a large number of arches is very difficult. It sounds like a great idea in practice, and I like it myself, but it's proved sufficiently troublesome that the maintainer Hakan Ardo is not keen to continue with the idea - reckoning that a set of cross-compilers each maintained by a relevant expert is a better bet. Of course, you don't have to deal with the way packages progress through the debian archive (versionning is a real problem here), and emdebian doesn't have to either for it's own purposes so if you're getting something that works that sounds good to me. > The result is an easy way to generate exactly the set of compilers > you want from whatever source you want. I look forward to it. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
