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Hi everybody.

I searched the web for some information about this, but haven't been able to find any answer to my question.

I'd appreciate if someone could give me an advice about which version of the different development tools (namely binutils & gcc), and which version of the C library (either glibc or newlib) I should use for a MPC860T processor.

I currently use the Hard Hat Journeyman Edition (and recompiled everything from the rpm sources), but was wondering if it would be better to stick with it or use a newer version of some tools.

I suppose that GCC 3.x is not ready for the MPC8xx yet (but I might be wrong).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Laurent Pinchart.

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I think that the Hard Hat tools will probably be the easiest for you to get up and running with. They have probably been the most throughly debugged for the
8xx. Although if your looking to put together your own tools for the 860
series, we here have built the following, with a reasonably good deal of success. See the notes for details:

Binutils:
2.1.2 - no problems at all. Download and build them for powerpc-linux and away
you go

GCC:
2.95.3 - again no real problems.

GLIBC:
2.2.4 - relatively easy. Some issues with memory faults on occasion, which I
have not yet traked down.

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GDB:

      5.1.1 - no problems

General notes:
I've personally been following the embedded cross-gcc mini howto available on
penguinppc.com and I've been more or less happy with the results. hope that helps!

Thanks Neil.

I've been able to succesfully use the Hard Hat binaries (actually that's so simple that I wouldn't have dared asking questions in this mailing list if I hadn't :-), but I'd like to recompile from the sources, in order not to depend on a binary release, and also to be able to modify the tools if needed.

I tried to compile the tools from the sources without patching them a few months ago, and experienced memory faults and a lot of other problems with dynamically linked executables (is that a known issue ?).

Recompiling from the SRPMS shouldn't be a hard job, so that's what I'll try. All the patches are supposed to be included in there...

Just to make sure, did you mean binutils 2.11.2 ?

Laurent Pinchart

Yes, binutils 2.11.2. Sorry about my fat fingers... :)
Say....Speaking of those memory faults. I never got around to researching
them. Can you or anyone else provide general notes on exactly what those patches fix? I'd certainly appreciate it, as I always wanted to track those down, but never quite found the time. Thanks!

Quoted 46 lines · Laurent Pinchart

Quoted 20 lines

I think that the Hard Hat tools will probably be the easiest for you to get up and running with. They have probably been the most throughly debugged for the
8xx. Although if your looking to put together your own tools for the 860
series, we here have built the following, with a reasonably good deal of success. See the notes for details:

Binutils:
2.1.2 - no problems at all. Download and build them for powerpc-linux and away
you go

GCC:
2.95.3 - again no real problems.

GLIBC:
2.2.4 - relatively easy. Some issues with memory faults on occasion, which I
have not yet traked down.

Quoted 8 lines

GDB:

      5.1.1 - no problems

General notes:
I've personally been following the embedded cross-gcc mini howto available on
penguinppc.com and I've been more or less happy with the results. hope that helps!

Thanks Neil.

I've been able to succesfully use the Hard Hat binaries (actually that's so simple that I wouldn't have dared asking questions in this mailing list if I hadn't :-), but I'd like to recompile from the sources, in order not to depend on a binary release, and also to be able to modify the tools if needed.

I tried to compile the tools from the sources without patching them a few months ago, and experienced memory faults and a lot of other problems with dynamically linked executables (is that a known issue ?).

Recompiling from the SRPMS shouldn't be a hard job, so that's what I'll try. All the patches are supposed to be included in there...

Just to make sure, did you mean binutils 2.11.2 ?

Laurent Pinchart

FYI,

strip in binutils-2.11.2 has problems...
Not very important maybe, but annoying.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-binutils/2001-q3/msg00108.html

/ magnus

Quoted 55 lines · Neil Horman

Yes, binutils 2.11.2. Sorry about my fat fingers... :)
Say....Speaking of those memory faults. I never got around to researching
them. Can you or anyone else provide general notes on exactly what those patches fix? I'd certainly appreciate it, as I always wanted to track those down, but never quite found the time. Thanks!

Quoted 46 lines · Laurent Pinchart

Quoted 20 lines

I think that the Hard Hat tools will probably be the easiest for you to get up and running with. They have probably been the most throughly debugged for the
8xx. Although if your looking to put together your own tools for the 860
series, we here have built the following, with a reasonably good deal of success. See the notes for details:

Binutils:
2.1.2 - no problems at all. Download and build them for powerpc-linux and away
you go

GCC:
2.95.3 - again no real problems.

GLIBC:
2.2.4 - relatively easy. Some issues with memory faults on occasion, which I
have not yet traked down.

Quoted 8 lines

GDB:

      5.1.1 - no problems

General notes:
I've personally been following the embedded cross-gcc mini howto available on
penguinppc.com and I've been more or less happy with the results. hope that helps!

Thanks Neil.

I've been able to succesfully use the Hard Hat binaries (actually that's so simple that I wouldn't have dared asking questions in this mailing list if I hadn't :-), but I'd like to recompile from the sources, in order not to depend on a binary release, and also to be able to modify the tools if needed.

I tried to compile the tools from the sources without patching them a few months ago, and experienced memory faults and a lot of other problems with dynamically linked executables (is that a known issue ?).

Recompiling from the SRPMS shouldn't be a hard job, so that's what I'll try. All the patches are supposed to be included in there...

Just to make sure, did you mean binutils 2.11.2 ?

Laurent Pinchart