Re: Questions on cross compiling Linux host, PPC target.

• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 22:13:04 -0800
• From:
  Doug Evans <dje@cygnus.com>
• Reply-To:
  Doug Evans <dje@cygnus.com>
• CC: timbo@moshpit.air.net.au, mikemcquade@connect.com, crossgcc@cygnus.com
• In-reply-to: <199611190325.VAA01748@eli.wariat.org> (rj@eli.wariat.org)

   Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:25:55 -0600
   From: "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>

   >>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Potter <timbo@moshpit.air.net.au> writes:

       Timothy> On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 mikemcquade@connect.com wrote: [...]

       >> Id like to build a Linux hosted PowerPC compiler, is it
       >> possible that I can re-name all of the PowerPC specific tools ?
       >> 
       >> I want to keep all of the existing tools GCC GAS LD etc, and
       >> have all of the PowerPC tools named something else, like
       >> ppcgcc, ppcgas, ppcld etc...

       Timothy> When you build the compiler and tools you'll end up with
       Timothy> executables named powerpc-unknown-elf-gcc or something
       Timothy> similar.  It's perfectly OK to rename these to something
       Timothy> more useful like, as you suggest, ppcgcc and friends.

   A more useful strategy would be to set symlinks to them with the
   desired names.  This way other utilities would still find these tools by the conventional names.

Note that one can also configure with --program-prefix,
--program-suffix, or --program-transform-name to generate
binaries of the desired naming format.

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• From: "Robert J. Brown" <rj@eli.wariat.org>

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