[linux-sh:03315] Re: Building a cross compiler for the Dreamcast

Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Actually yes I did. And something within the scripts didn't appreciate my
> efforts. I posted my efforts to the newgroup. In case you didn't see it
> there, I've got a local copy:
> 
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I did that. I used the default browser for KDE to download that one. Tar
> complained so I grabbed it via wget. Extracted it into the /usr/local/src
> directory.
> 
> I then ran the script for setting things for the SH4.

Which script was that?  Note that the recommended way to run for starters is
   sh demo-sh4.sh

 > I should have
> mentioned, that my target isn't one of the developer boards from the 
> company, its a Dreamcast that's my target.
> 
> I then ran the next script, it complained about not having a couple of
> variables set.
> Same with the crosstool.sh script. I also created a script file to explain
> this:
> Script started on Thu 16 Sep 2004 12:21:11 AM EDT
> root@who4:/usr/local/src/crosstool-0.28-rc35# sh all.sh
> Please set TARGET to the Gnu target identifier (e.g. pentium-linux)
> root@who4:/usr/local/src/crosstool-0.28-rc35# sh crosstool.sh
> Please set PREFIX to where you want the toolchain installed.
> root@who4:/usr/local/src/crosstool-0.28-rc35# exit
> Script done on Thu 16 Sep 2004 12:23:17 AM EDT

That's exactly what you would expect if you ran all.sh or crosstool.sh
without setting those variables.

> I did read the documentation pointed to inside the
> doc directory that the README file points to. 

Evidently the doc sucks.  If I can figure out how, I'll improve it.

 > Also I'd like to have the crosstool scripts build Slackware packages.

Can't help you there.  I don't know what those are.  Aren't they just tarballs?

 > I'm also going to post the output from the demo-sh4.sh script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> set -ex
> TARBALLS_DIR=/usr/local/src/sh4
> RESULT_TOP=/opt/crosstool
> export TARBALLS_DIR RESULT_TOP
> GCC_LANGUAGES="c,c++"
> export GCC_LANGUAGES
> 
> # Really, you should do the mkdir before running this,
> # and chown /opt/crosstool to yourself so you don't need to run as root.
> mkdir -p $RESULT_TOP
> 
> # Build the toolchain.  Takes a couple hours and a couple gigabytes.
> # note: binutils < 2.13 doesn't know about sh4, so don't try building gcc-2.95
> # note: gcc-3.2.3 has ICE compiling glibc for sh4 (http://gcc.gnu.org/PR6954), so don't try building gcc-3.2.3
> 
> #eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.3-glibc-2.2.5.dat`    sh all.sh --notest
> #eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.3-glibc-2.3.2.dat`    sh all.sh --notest
> #eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.3.2-glibc-2.3.2.dat`  sh all.sh --notest
> #eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2.dat`  sh all.sh --notest
> #eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.4.0-glibc-2.3.2.dat`  sh all.sh --notest
>  eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.3.dat`  sh all.sh --notest
> #eval `cat sh4.dat gcc-3.4.1-glibc-20040827.dat`  sh all.sh --notest
> 
> echo Done.

Er, that's not the output from the script, that's the script itself.
Are you quite sure you ran it?

- Dan

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