Hi Bob On 24/09/10 08:38, Bob Dunlop wrote:
For hardcore embedded systems programming there's really no choice, Gentoo all the way. No other system lets you set up an entire cross development tool chain and library for a custom target with a single command. I've currently got six cross development environments installed on my work machine and a further three at home. Deleting them is likewise a single command so I only keep the current working set.
That's interesting. I'm now at the end of week two setting up a gcc/Newlib toolchain for m68k (on Debian). Most of the pain has been in figuring out how to avoid Newlib's I/O and reentrancy overhead, for very memory-constrained targets, but the initial build sequence wasn't straightforward either. How would I do this with Gentoo?
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