RE: MIPS cross compiler

["B Srinivas " <b.srinivas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Erik Mouw [mailto:J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 6:20 PM
To: B Srinivas 
Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: MIPS cross compiler

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:25:36PM +0530, B Srinivas  wrote:
>     Iam trying to build cross compiler for mips 64 big endian and I
> follow the following steps.
> 
>  
> 
> cd  linux/

make ARCH=mips help

That will show you all possible defconfigs.

> cp arch/mips64/defconfig  .

make ARCH=mips xxx_defconfig

> make menuconfig 

make ARCH=mips oldconfig

> make dep

No longer necessary with 2.6, and not necessary for building
crosscompilers with 2.4.

[...]

> can anybody tell me where iam wrong .do I need to do anything more ???

Don't try to reinvent the wheel, use Dan Kegel's crosstool.


Erik

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Erik Mouw
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Very true ....

I got the whole thing right now with that. Thanx

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