Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-09 Thread anmar.ou...@linaro.org
On 9 March 2011 09:09, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/ToolchainInstall Hey guys. This looks great. A couple of pointers: 1. For the other non-ubuntu linux distros, it might be worth to put in a bug in the other distro's ears to update the wiki themselves so some F

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-09 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Hi Michael, On 03/09/2011 12:33 AM, Michael Hope wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Opdenacker > wrote: >> I'm not very happy with the way the first page looks now. There are too >> many section headers (don't know how to add a "preformatted text" >> section inside a bullet list),

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Hope
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > On 03/08/2011 04:38 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> Thanks! That's right that both pages have similar content. I will take >> care of merging my stuff to the >> https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/ToolchainInstall page, and then to add >>

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Opdenacker
On 03/08/2011 04:38 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > Thanks! That's right that both pages have similar content. I will take > care of merging my stuff to the > https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/ToolchainInstall page, and then to add > a link to it from https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Hi Andy, On 03/07/2011 11:07 PM, Andy Doan wrote: > On 03/07/2011 01:37 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> I created a wiki page about the binary cross-compiling toolchains: >> https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BinaryCrossToolchains > We already have a page pretty similiar to this here

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-08 Thread Dave Martin
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Andy Doan wrote: > On 03/07/2011 01:37 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: >> I created a wiki page about the binary cross-compiling toolchains: >> https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BinaryCrossToolchains > > We already have a page pretty similiar to this he

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-07 Thread Andy Doan
On 03/07/2011 01:37 PM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > I created a wiki page about the binary cross-compiling toolchains: > https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BinaryCrossToolchains We already have a page pretty similiar to this here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Mentoring/ToolchainInstall

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Hope
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Michael Opdenacker wrote: > Dave, > > I agree with you when you say that Linaro toolchains are not easy to use > for new visitors. > > I will improve the http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ page (hopefully this > week) to improve this. > > On 03/03/2011 02:26 PM, Marc

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Opdenacker
Dave, I agree with you when you say that Linaro toolchains are not easy to use for new visitors. I will improve the http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ page (hopefully this week) to improve this. On 03/03/2011 02:26 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Current situation is like this: > > 1. Debian users

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-03 Thread Dave Martin
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 03/03/11 09:47, Andrew Stubbs wrote: >>> >>> Sure.  But we have some evidence with the CS releases that this is >>> reasonably possible, right? >> >> True, but CodeSourcery have some quite involved infrastructure in place >> to achieve that

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 03/03/11 09:47, Andrew Stubbs wrote: Sure. But we have some evidence with the CS releases that this is reasonably possible, right? True, but CodeSourcery have some quite involved infrastructure in place to achieve that. Of course, I have access to that, and I could probably get something b

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-03 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
On czw, 2011-03-03 at 09:04 +1300, Michael Hope wrote: > It's funny how things happen at the same time. I've been asked a few > times about how to compile Linaro GCC so I started this page a few > days ago: > https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Using > > The goal is to describe how

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-03 Thread Dave Martin
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Michael Hope wrote: > (top posting as summarising) > > It's funny how things happen at the same time.  I've been asked a few > times about how to compile Linaro GCC so I started this page a few > days ago: >  https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Using > >

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 02/03/11 18:09, Matthias Klose wrote: On 02.03.2011 19:02, Andrew Stubbs wrote: On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: 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

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 02/03/11 22:51, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Andrew Stubbs wrote: Binaries that can be run anywhere are challenging. You either have to static link (and even then you need to be careful what syscalls you use), or you have to build them against some ancient libraries, and static li

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > 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. > > Binari

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Hope
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 &g

RE: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Vandervennet Yves-R55763
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

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread David Gilbert
On 2 March 2011 18:44, John Rigby wrote: > FWIW, Michael's recipe for building here > https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/cross-build has worked > well for me. It's OK for people familiar with toolchains; the problem is where you have a subject specialist who knows how to write C or ARM a

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread John Rigby
FWIW, Michael's recipe for building here https://code.launchpad.net/~michaelh1/+junk/cross-build has worked well for me. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 02.03.2011 19:02, Andrew Stubbs wrote: >> On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >>> Building a cross-compiler is a

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.03.2011 19:02, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> 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. > > Binaries

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 02/03/11 17:52, Nicolas Pitre wrote: 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. Binaries that can be run anywhere are challenging. You either h

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. This comes up frequently; I'm sure many people would b

Re: Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Nicolas Pitre
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 pla

Getting linaro toolchain binaries

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Martin
Hi all, I've had comments that getting hold of binaries for the linaro toolchain can be trick for people unfamiliar with the linaro tools. One reason is that we don't release binaries as such -- but a visitor browsing in through http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ won't discover this, and may waste