I agree with Nicolas' proposal to deliver a cross-compiler. A lot of people request this
Yves -----Original Message----- From: linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org [mailto:linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Pitre Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 11:52 AM To: Dave Martin Cc: linaro-toolchain Subject: Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Dave Martin wrote: > On the other hand, the cross toolchain packages are likely to be of > interest to such visitors, but aren't obviously advertised -- maybe > I'm looking in the wrong place, but if so then new visitors to the > linaro pages are likely to look in the wrong place too. > > Would it make sense to explain the situation more prominently so that > visitors know what to expect? I would think so. > Something along the lines of "if you use distro x revision y, these > cross-compiler packages are available" and "if you need the tools for > some other environment, you need to download the source and build it > for yourself". Building a cross-compiler is already a challenge in itself. Would be better to build a version that can be installed anywhere like the CodeSourcery releases and offer that as a tar download. Nicolas _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
