[Debian-coldfire-devel] Re: Creation of #debian-68k on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:06:12PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:00:32AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > 
> > > BTW the kernel team(?) decided that we use gcc-4.0 now for all arches, 
> > > I am not sure if that works for m68k, did anybody build a kernel with 
> > > gcc-4 already?
> > 
> > Why gcc-4.0 when 4.1 is now the default? Maybe someone of the m68k users 
> > would like to compile a kernel with gcc-4.0 and with gcc-4.1 and report 
> > how that works out? Anyone?
> 
> With some work, I've rev'd my cross-compilers, and yes, the 2.6.16 m68k 
> CVS kernel does build with gcc 4.0.3 and 4.1.1... except I've only tested 
> with debian's Mac .config and it didn't build without a small patch to 
> pmu68k.c, which I'll post to the linux-m68k list. I haven't tried booting 
> the results.
> 
> As for the tool chain itself, gcc-4.0.3 won't build glibc-2.3.6 without 
> patching both packages. In particular, for gcc-4.0.3, the fix for PR 20583 
> which can be found in gcc-4.1 is required. I'm using upstream sources, not 
> debian sources, so YMMV.

Can you tell some details? I tried to build a gcc-4.0 cross-compiler, but it
failed. Then I tried to build 2.6.17 with my old gcc-3.3.6, and it failed
also.

Christian