[U-Boot] Building U-Boot under Ubuntu 8.10

[Ben Warren]

Hi Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear cmfairfa at rockwellcollins.com,
>
> In message <OF8FD4848E.6EC6CC4F-ON852575D2.004C617A-852575D2.004D5A7B at rockwellcollins.com> you wrote:
>   
>> ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE are set and exported
>> (ARCH=ppc, CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-)
>>     
>
> ...which is plain wrong. "powerpc-linux-" is NOIT a legal setting for
> CROSS_COMPILE.
>
> Please RTFM.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
>   
Based on my limited understanding, it seems this should be a valid 
prefix.  If you have a moment, can you explain why it's not?  In my 
installation everything seems to point to 'powerpc-linux-*':

bwarren at bwarren-bldsrv:/opt/tools/eldk_4.1/usr/bin$ ls -l p*-gcc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 99312 2007-01-19 17:00 powerpc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:22 ppc_4xxFP-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:21 ppc_4xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_6xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:24 ppc_74xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_7xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_82xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:26 ppc_85xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 2008-12-04 15:27 ppc_8xx-gcc -> ppc-linux-gcc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    17 2008-12-04 15:21 ppc-linux-gcc -> powerpc-linux-gcc
bwarren at bwarren-bldsrv:/opt/tools/eldk_4.1/usr/bin$ ls -l p*-as
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 621872 2007-01-19 17:00 powerpc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:21 ppc_4xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:22 ppc_4xxFP-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_6xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:24 ppc_74xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_7xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_82xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:26 ppc_85xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:27 ppc_8xx-as -> ppc-linux-as
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2008-12-04 15:21 ppc-linux-as -> powerpc-linux-as
bwarren at bwarren-bldsrv:/opt/tools/eldk_4.1/usr/bin$ ls -l p*-ld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 800652 2007-01-19 17:00 powerpc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:22 ppc_4xxFP-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:21 ppc_4xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_6xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:24 ppc_74xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_7xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:23 ppc_82xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:26 ppc_85xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2008-12-04 15:27 ppc_8xx-ld -> ppc-linux-ld
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2008-12-04 15:21 ppc-linux-ld -> powerpc-linux-ld

etc.

regards,
Ben