[Clfs-dev] ppc/64 comments

[Ken Moffat]

On 29 July 2010 00:33, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop73 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Now that I've reverted to 32-bit userspace, I need to make cross-binutils
> and the initial cross-gcc to build a 64-bit C compiler for the kernel.  I was
> using recent versions of everything, with binutils-2.20.1 and gcc-4.4.3.
> On my old partially-multilib systems, the cross compilation from within
> linux32 gave no problems.  On the new system, cross-compiling (powerpc
> to powerpc64) caused libtool to segfault while building bfd.  Reverting to
> binutils-2.20 removed the problem.  Hopefully, this is specific to something
> I'm doing wrong and YMMV.  If not, try the older version.
>
 Hmm, this was a red herring, it still can't build a kernel - multiple
definitions of far too many things, and the cross- ld segfaults.
Maybe I'll just give up on that box.

ĸen
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