This begs the question for gcc-crosssdk-intermediate... Is that gone as well?
>-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Eggleton [mailto:paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com] >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:00 AM >To: yocto@yoctoproject.org >Cc: Rifenbark, Scott M >Subject: Re: [yocto] Need clarification on some terms > >On Wednesday 12 June 2013 04:16:30 mich...@cubic.org wrote: >> Paul D. DeRocco wrote on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 9:07 PM: >> > "Following is a list of toolchain recipes..." This is followed by >> > gcc-cross-initial, gcc-cross-intermediate, gcc-cross. All three of >these >> > things say that the toolchain runs on the host and is used to build >> > software >> > for the target. So why are there three of them? What are the >differences >> > among them? >> >> The gcc must be build multiple times when you bootstrap it. >> For building the gcc you need to build the libc and therefor you need >to >> build the linux kernel headers and therefor you need the gcc. Oops. >> >> Thats why you first build a gcc only with c support and no libc first. >> Use that to generate the kernel headers, then build the initial libc >and >> then another gcc with libc support and all the frontends you need >> (c,c++,java,fortran,..). Why there is the gcc-cross-intermediate I am >not >> shure, but there will be a reason and another one can clarify that. > >gcc-cross-intermediate is gone as of 1.3; as I understand it current >versions >of glibc can be compiled using gcc-cross-initial so the intermediate >step is >no longer required. We should remove mention of this from the >documentation >(other than in the migration section that is). > >Cheers, >Paul > >-- > >Paul Eggleton >Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto