On 1/8/06, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at free.fr> wrote:
> Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Ken Mays wrote:
> >> Hello....
> >> Someone should have asked Peter to assist in building the GCC cross
> >> compiler since he is the Blastwave GCC maintainer.
> >> Peter - do you feel this is something you'd like to assist or do for
> >> this project (i.e. handle compiing/building the GCC 4.0.1 PPC cross
> >> compiler??) I can assist as well.
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > Actually I do remember you volunteered for this a looong time ago,
> > but since I never heard from you again I assumed you've lost the
> > interest for this .
>
> Indeed, I volunteered for this task in August 2005. External events
> brought my efforts to a halt. I think that now I can devote some time
> to this and devised a plan. It's possible that it doesn't
> correspond to your wishes but I'm open to suggestions. However, I
> have some other due and related projects that I need to finish before.
>
> January 2006:
>
> - finish the packaging of gcc 3.4.5 for Blastwave
> - gather more information about cross tools
>
> February 2006:
>
> cross tool SPARC to PowerPC, Debian 3.1
>
> March 2006:
>
> cross tool x86 to PowerPC, Debian 3.1
>
>
>
> You can read a more detailed account at
> http://pfelecan.free.fr/blastware/crosstools/
>
And from time to time I love to look at the graphs at :
http://pfelecan.free.fr/blastwave/dependencyGraph/
I often wonder what happened to the VRML idea for the representation
of objects in 3-dimensions via a browser. It would be interesting to
try to represent the dependency tree in 3-D with paths that would not
intersect. Makes for an interesting idea. Anyways .. I'm OT again
as I work with the zone for the new server.
As for the compiler .. I look forward to that. I use the GCC 3.4.4
code on the PowerPC ODW unit for compiling GRUB2 and it seems to work
well if I really focus on the testsuite results. Is it reasonable for
me to use the "--enable-altivec " option ?
[dclarke at ppc ~]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from
/home/dclarke/local/lib/gcc/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.4/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.4/configure --prefix=/home/dclarke/local
--with-local-prefix=/home/dclarke/local
--with-as=/home/dclarke/local/bin/as
--with-ld=/home/dclarke/local/bin/ld --enable-threads=posix
--enable-altivec --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++
--disable-nls --enable-shared --libexecdir=/home/dclarke/local/lib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.4
This question is relavent as I am compiling the latest GRUB2 now ( in
another xterm as I setup a zone ) and hope to boot my ODW with the
latest GRUB2 grubof.modules shortly. I am very vauge on the value of
the --enable-altivec option and wonder if I am making my life ( and
others ) difficult.
Dennis
