[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 1/9/06, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:39:16PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: > > On 1/9/06, Matt Sealey wrote: > > ... > > > I personally agree that we should stick with 3.4.5 for now, since > > > it is a closed branch, stable in more ways than compilability. > > > They are not g

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Darren J Moffat
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:39, Cyril Plisko wrote: > of hours on it I gave up and built gcc from the sources distributed in > SUNWgccS package - it is essentially gcc-3.4.3 with Sun' fixes. > The bug is gone and I am happy again. It is with compiler genunix > was built yesterday. I think that is a v

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:29:08PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: > No one said it is bad - we just need to concentrate on the main goal - > getting > Polaris run. All the other things are tools in reaching that goal. > After we're done > with the 1st goal we can think of moving to newest compiler.

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Cyril Plisko
On 1/9/06, Matt Sealey wrote: ... > I personally agree that we should stick with 3.4.5 for now, since > it is a closed branch, stable in more ways than compilability. > They are not going to radically change the behaviour of the > compiler under our feet as is usually the case with a new release >

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:39:16PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: > On 1/9/06, Matt Sealey wrote: > ... > > I personally agree that we should stick with 3.4.5 for now, since > > it is a closed branch, stable in more ways than compilability. > > They are not going to radically change the behaviour of t

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Matt Sealey
> > positively perceived quality, subjective as it is, I admit, and the > > 3.4 branch is of this bread. > > Well, i am just pointing out that major linux distros are > using gcc 4.x since over 6 month now, constantly rebuilding > all those (tens of) thousands of packages with it, so it > can

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 08:37:58PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote: > Sven Luther writes: > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote: > >> Ken Mays writes: > >> > >> > Tested cross-compiler effort: > >> > binutils-2.16.1 - good > >> > gcc 3.3.6 - no > >> > gcc 3.4.5 - good (

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-08 Thread Peter FELECAN
Sven Luther writes: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote: >> Ken Mays writes: >> >> > Tested cross-compiler effort: >> > binutils-2.16.1 - good >> > gcc 3.3.6 - no >> > gcc 3.4.5 - good (optional) >> > gcc 4.1.0 - good (recommended) >> > >> > I'll tend to use gcc 4.1.

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 1/8/06, Peter FELECAN wrote: > Sven Luther writes: > > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote: > >> Ken Mays writes: > >> > >> > Tested cross-compiler effort: > >> > binutils-2.16.1 - good > >> > gcc 3.3.6 - no > >> > gcc 3.4.5 - good (optional) > >> > gcc 4.1.0 - goo

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:53:08PM +0100, Peter FELECAN wrote: > Ken Mays writes: > > > Tested cross-compiler effort: > > binutils-2.16.1 - good > > gcc 3.3.6 - no > > gcc 3.4.5 - good (optional) > > gcc 4.1.0 - good (recommended) > > > > I'll tend to use gcc 4.1.0 and work my way through CVS as

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-06 Thread Peter FELECAN
Ken Mays writes: > Tested cross-compiler effort: > binutils-2.16.1 - good > gcc 3.3.6 - no > gcc 3.4.5 - good (optional) > gcc 4.1.0 - good (recommended) > > I'll tend to use gcc 4.1.0 and work my way through CVS as needed. Should be > able to use this with other platforms as well for current NV

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-06 Thread Ken Mays
Tested cross-compiler effort: binutils-2.16.1 - good gcc 3.3.6 - no gcc 3.4.5 - good (optional) gcc 4.1.0 - good (recommended) I'll tend to use gcc 4.1.0 and work my way through CVS as needed. Should be able to use this with other platforms as well for current NV (ON) builds... ~ Ken Mays This me

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-04 Thread Cyril Plisko
Ben wrote: >>How do you test the binaries you've got ? >> > > > When the "cross compiler" produces native binaries, you know something went > wrong :) Indeed :) > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc

[powerpc-discuss] Re: Cross compiler questions

2006-01-03 Thread Ben
> > How do you test the binaries you've got ? > When the "cross compiler" produces native binaries, you know something went wrong :) This message posted from opensolaris.org