[Scratchbox-users] Notes on building crosstool compilers and crocodile packages for powerpc (PPC) using scratchbox

2006-12-21 Thread Jim Heck
Since I've been recently coming up the learning curve, I thought to copy some of my notes here in the hope that they might help some people. This covers building your own foreign toolchain and then install that in scratchbox to build crocodile packages for powerpc. Here are some notes. I was

[Scratchbox-users] Crosstool compilers built under HOST sandbox have 'ld' that doesn't find libraries in /usr/lib

2006-12-21 Thread Jim Heck
I've found that building crosstool compilers under the HOST sandbox leads to a compiler where the ld does not make user of /usr/lib to find libraries. I haven't root caused the problem. I definetly found that my cross compiler did work properly when I built it in a sandbox using the toolchain