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On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 8:50:48 PM CEST Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > So what's your build process for the cross tools, by the way? I'm assuming
> > you're not doing a total bootstrap cross-tool build since you'd need minimal
> > kernel headers (linux/errno.h or whatever) in that case. I assume you're using
> > the host headers to build the cross tool?
> >
> > So I'm a little confused how the other kernel headers are working out for you,
> > e.g. <arch/icache.h> is referenced when building the tilegx libgcc.
>
> I've no idea; I use this thing:
>
> git://git.infradead.org/users/segher/buildall.git
>
> Although I've got some local modifications, none are to the actual
> toolchain building part (although I suppose I should send segher a
> patch).
>
> I have binutils-gdb.git and gcc.bit checkouts and point the buildall
> config to that (both are on latest stable branches binutils-2_26-branch
> and gcc-6-branch resp.). And I point the kernel path to my current
> hacked up tree.
>
> I don't really rebuild the entire toolchains often, mostly only when I
> really need a new GCC or its getting really old (like I used 5.3.0 for a
> long while).

I think the kernel headers are only needed for building glibc, which
buildall.git doesn't use: it only does the initial stage of creating
a cross-toolchain.

Arnd

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