Re: Re: Fw: Another problem with making things static

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:44:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
> The most usual failure mode was simply inability to find any combination of
> gcc/binutils/glibc which could be compiled.

*nod*

...
> I say this a lot, but...  It is in the interests of arch maintainers to
> help others to build cross-compilers.  If someone were to prepare a web
> page (or even a script) which could be used to generate a kernel
> cross-compilation environment for parisc then the parisc maintainers would
> see a lot less breakage.

Agreed.
We have such a page:
	http://www.parisc-linux.org/toolchain/PARISC-Linux-XC-HOWTO.html

(link "Build XC" from www.p-l.o homepage)


> For one, I do allmodconfig on all architectures on all patches I get (and
> that includes all the git trees).  If stuff breaks, the breaker gets to
> hear about it, before it gets merged.

Wow! I think most of us are lagging way behind you here...

thanks,
grant