On Mon, 20 May 2002, Maarten den Braber wrote: > [ i'm not subscribed to this list, i would greatly appreciate it if you > could CC your reply to me. thanks! ] > > Hi, > > Recently I bought a second-hand Sun JavaStation NC. I would like to run > a custom 2.4 kernel on it so I need to compile a sparc kernel on my > Athlon workstation. For that I need (correct me if i'm wrong) a gcc > compiler that can compile for sparc platforms.
You'll need a cross-compiling gcc and binutils. > To do this I've download the deb-source of gcc and followed the > instructions in README.cross. But I haven't succeeded in compiling a gcc > cross-compiler. It stops with multiple errors about 'No such > instruction'. A little search on google learnt that it probably tries to > use the wrong binutils. Yes, that's the problem so far. > I've tried compiling with binutils-multiarch and binutils-sparc both or > each one alone installed but with no luck. Further searches about this > problem didn't gave me any clue so I hope you can help me get my > JavaStation and therefore gcc running :) Binutils-multiarch is not meant to provide a cross-assembler or linker...it simply provides multiarch-targetted utilities, such as objdump and nm. To easily produce a cross-assembler/linker, install the toolchain-source package and read the docs on that. It's VERY easy to produce a "binutils-sparc" package with that (in fact, I may even have one somewhere)...should only be a one or two-command process :-) If you need help with that, let me know as I've done about 10 cross-assemblers so far (just not uploaded since they're limited-use). To produce a full cross-compiling toolchain, you'll also probably need the headers from a sparc copied over onto your Athlon, FYI, before bootstrapping gcc. C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
