FYI: We are using Crosstool-NG (http://crosstool-ng.github.io/). It seems to be quite popular for cross compiling.
Med venlig hilsen / kind regards - Morten Brørup > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Wiles, Keith > Sent: Friday, June 9, 2017 8:06 PM > To: Richardson, Bruce > Cc: Christian Ehrhardt; Stephen Hemminger; dev > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] replace DPDK config and build > system > > > > On Jun 9, 2017, at 4:05 AM, Bruce Richardson > <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:07:05PM -0600, Christian Ehrhardt wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Hemminger < > >> step...@networkplumber.org> wrote: > >> > >>> On a side note, it would be good to use the GCC extensions that > >>> allow building different versions of the same routine into one > binary. > >>> > >> > >> And we are back to the discussion we had two years ago about how to > >> deliver generic yet also optimized binaries in one shot. > >> But if the new build system can enable us to do so I'm all in for > that. > >> > >> Thanks for bringing this up in that context Stephen - might be just > >> the right time to look at it again. > >> > > Yep, we can do that. First though, we need to decide what our minimum > > supported compiler baseline is going to be. > > Also, if the replace the build system, do we want to do a complete > > on-shot replacement, or do we want to keep the older one around in > > parallel for a while e.g. to support older OS's and compilers. > > I think it would be a good idea to keep the old version for now. > > I would suggest adding the new build system to a sandbox repo until we > think we have parity then merge into main. Keep the old system in place > to allow for other systems until we believe we really have covered all > of the bases. > > What would your baseline be ? > > I would suggest pick a few distros like Linux Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat > just a guess at the ones we need to support first. > > Think we have to support IA and ARM at the same time for the few > distros we start with first or at least pick the most used one for ARM > first. > > > > > /Bruce > > Regards, > Keith >
