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Re: Tool chains, and I386
- To: Robin Farine <acnrf at dial dot eunet dot ch>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Tool chains, and I386
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:46:37 +0100
- Cc: drwho8 at att dot net,ecos - discuss <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <3BB017FC.D3EFC80@att.net> <86wv2neqjr.fsf@halftrack.hq.acn-group.ch>
Robin Farine wrote:
>
> Gregg C Levine <drwho8@att.net> writes:
>
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers
> > Can the eCos build arrangements be told to build using the pre-existing
> > toolchain on a I386 type Linux platform? In this case, I mean here. The
> > host is a Pentium III based system. Any suggestions for doing that, I
> > mean.
>
> If you build eCos for the linux synthetic target then yes, it should work
> with something like this in your config:
>
> cdl_option CYGBLD_GLOBAL_COMMAND_PREFIX {
> user_value ""
> };
>
> But if you want to build it for the raw pc target then I think that you'll need
> the tools for the i386-elf target.
It may be possible to use the native tools even for those, but it depends
on the version of the tools :-|. Try it, and if it doesn't work, build up
the i386-elf tools :-).
Jifl
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