Brian D. Horn wrote:
> Mark Martin wrote:
>
>> Ugg- Monday morning lag on the "reply-all" button
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Mark Martin* < storycrafter at gmail.com
>> <mailto:storycrafter at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Oct 1, 2007 9:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: [powerpc-discuss] Sparc hosted GCC/binutils?
>> To: Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com
>> <mailto:cyril.plisko at mountall.com>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/1/07, *Cyril Plisko* < cyril.plisko at mountall.com
>> <mailto:cyril.plisko at mountall.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/1/07, Mark Martin <storycrafter at gmail.com
>> <mailto:storycrafter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > Gang,
>> >
>> > Was there a technical reason to use only x86 hosted x-compile
>> tools, or was
>> > it more of a logistical one ( i.e. convenience?) If I had my
>> heart set on
>> > creating a sparc-hosted xdev chain, will I suffer needlessly?
>>
>> The decision was based on hardware availability. Nothing technical or
>> political. You should be able to recompile the tool-chain to run
>> on SPARC if you would prefer to do so.
>>
>>
>>
>> Awesome -- I suspected as much, thanks.
>>
>> Maybe I'll be able to get a compile farm built then.
>>
> The above is 100% accurate. The Solaris "ld" is needed to
>
Sigh... Too early in the morning. "is 100% accurate" should have been
"is not 100% accurate".
> do the build (the gnu ld isn't quite up to the job). This means you
> would have to do the work to make ld (and related libraries)
> cross build on SPARC for PowerPC. I believe that the amount
> of work is minimal, but it is not zero.
>
> Brian
>
>
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