Re: [iPAQ] gcc

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Disconnect wrote:

> As an aside, I do building using nfsroot (or at least nfs-chroot) and a
> rmeote debian-arm system. (I don't remember the URL offhand, but the list

I also successfully used debian-arm, except I have it running natively on
an iPaq with a 340Mb microdrive. I installed familiar, decompresed the
debian-arm base tarball from debian.org onto the microdrive, chroot'd and
set some things up by hand. It runs gcc without a hitch. Heck, it even
runs the latest emacs usably! I figure that since people were running gcc
and emacs on late 80's hardware, there shouldn't be resource problems
running it on an iPaq. My only problem is that the stable debian distro
uses a different version of libc than familiar does, so you can't just
borrow the Xfbdev binary from familiar.

Incidentally, I've been spending some time getting lcc to generate
gas-compatible assembler. It's a fast non-optimizing C compiler which
might be more suited to native compilation than present-day gcc.

Andrew

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Received on Wed Apr 18 12:16:17 2001