crossdev,cross-armeb-softfloat-linux-uclibc build failure

Bill Suit bsuit at bellsouth.net
Tue Jun 6 12:15:58 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 06 June 2006 04:56, thomas.cooksey at bt.com wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Crossdev is a gentoo tool. This probably isn't the right place to find
> out information about crossdev itself as this is the list for buildroot
> & uClibc. The gentoo forum is probably your best bet.
>
> However, I also used crossdev to build my toolchain, with disastrous
> consequences. It basically switched my host gcc profile to the
> cross-compiler breaking my gentoo instillation (emerge stopped working).
> I have since stopped using crossdev in favor of buildroot. :-)
>
> I think you will find you will have far better luck using buildroot. You
> can use it to simply build your toolchain if you don't want the root
> filesystem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
Thanks to Peter and Tom for your replies. I will take a good look at 
buildroot.

Bill



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