[ELDK] Building ELDK 4.2 for MIPS

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Gianni,

In message <200903110936.14054.nasus.maximos at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'm following the instructions I found in the site "3.9. Rebuilding the ELDK 
> from Scratch", although I found that page to be a bit outdated since I had to 
> things slightly differently (i.e. the git command is 'git clone' instead of 
> 'git-clone' and ELDK_BUILD uses '-a' for the target architecture instead of '-
> d').  

You know - it's a wiki - you could fix all these deficiencies
yourself...

"git-clone" should still work in all decent Linux distributions; for
example, Fedora installs all these links.

The "-d" must have been a typo - I fixed this now.

> I also had to add an extra option in 
> eldk-4.2/build/cross_rpms/crosstool/SPECS/crosstool.spec at line 332:
> 
>   BINUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG="--disable-werror"
>   export BINUTILS_EXTRA_CONFIG
> 
> because I was getting a gcc warning that caused the build to fail.  Maybe this 
> is because I had the 'wrong' distribution/gcc?

Probably.

> Anyway, I'll first retry everything on RH 7.3 then I'll report back.

Thanks for the feedback.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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