RE: some toolchain cross-compiling feedback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Causey [mailto:nikos_at_handhelds.org]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:14 AM
> To: Kurt Partridge
> Cc: George France; handhelds_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: some toolchain cross-compiling feedback

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> Unfortunately I don't currently have the time to work on this. Please
> note that the URL above is hosted on the http://handhelds.org wiki and
> the document can be editted by anyone, including you.

Ok! I'll go ahead and update it once I get to the point that I'm
confident that my problems weren't my own doing :).

> I'm surprised to hear that make
> menuconfig didn't work for you. Are you sure you got the kernel from
> cvs.handhelds.org? I've been out of the loop for a while, so perhaps
> there has been some build change that I'm not aware of.

I did get it from cvs.handhelds.org. Running 'make menuconfig' seems
to work better now that everything is installed. In any case, I wanted
it to produce something that would be consistent with the kernel in the
familiar distribution I installed, and there didn't seem to be a
user-friendly
way to do this in menuconfig. There is the 'Load Alternate Configuration
File' selection at the bottom, but it just prompts for a filename, and
it appears that one has to know what to type in. Following the instructions
in README.HANDHELDS seemed simpler once I figured out I needed to run
'make include/linux/version.h'.

> Congratulations on achieving a successful result, I wish you
> many happy crosscompiling cpu seconds.
>
> Ken Causey

Thanks! I hope you and George don't come to blows over reciprocally
attributing credit for the cross-compiling document.

Cheers,
Kurt
Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 08:32:26 EST