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Linux hosted compiler for IRIX 6.5? (fwd)

Peter Åstrand peter@cendio.se
Thu Mar 6 12:13:00 GMT 2003 
I sent the mail below to the CrossGCC mailing list a while ago, but this
mailing list is probably more relevant. Basically, my question is: Is the
GNU toolchain (gcc+binutils) usable for IRIX yet? If it is, which versions
of gcc+binutils do I want?

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Peter Åstrand                Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00
Cendio Systems               E-mail: peter@cendio.se
Teknikringen 3
583 30 Linköping


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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 11:45:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Åstrand <peter@cendio.se>
To: crossgcc@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Linux hosted compiler for IRIX 6.5?


Is it possible to build a Linux hosted cross compiler for IRIX 6.5? 
http://freeware.sgi.com/Installable/gcc-3.2.1.html says that GNU binutils 
doesn't support "the new SGI ABIs", which I assume is N32 and N64. I think 
I want to use the N32 ABI. But, when looking at the binutils source code, 
it looks like it can handle N32 these days. I hand-patched 
binutils configure.in to:

  mips*-*-irix6*)
    # The GNU assembler does not support IRIX 6.
    # Linking libjava exceeds command-line length limits on at least
    # IRIX 6.2, but not on IRIX 6.5.
    # Also, boehm-gc won't build on IRIX 6.5, according to Jeffrey Oldham
    # <oldham@codesourcery.com>
    #noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs gas gprof target-libgloss ${libgcj}"
    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs gprof target-libgloss ${libgcj}"
    ;;

It seems to work, but I haven't been able to build GCC yet. I'm copying
header files and libraries from a running IRIX 6.5 system. Is this the 
best way to do it? Is it possible to use glibc instead?


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Peter Åstrand                Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00
Cendio Systems               E-mail: peter@cendio.se
Teknikringen 3
583 30 Linköping




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