docs/0 - Table of content.txt
author "Benoît Thébaudeau" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Mon Apr 16 15:25:36 2012 +0200 (2012-04-16)
changeset 2941 13e40098fffc
parent 2569 4aba7a7337b0
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cc/gcc: update Linaro GCC revisions to 2012.04

Update Linaro GCC with the latest available revisions.

The 4.7 revision is also released, but the infrastructure is not yet ready for
it in CT-NG.

Signed-off-by: "Benoît Thébaudeau" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
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File.........: 0 - Table of content.txt
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Copyright....: (C) 2010 Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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License......: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike (CC-by-sa), v2.5
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Table Of Content  /
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1- Introduction
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    - History
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    - Referring to crosstool-NG
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2- Installing crosstool-NG
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    - Install method
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    - The hacker's way
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    - Preparing for packaging
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    - Shell completion
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    - Contributed code
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3- Configuring a toolchain
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    - Interesting config options
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    - Re-building an existing toolchain
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    - Using as a backend for a build-system
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4- Building the toolchain
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    - Stopping and restarting a build
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    - Testing all toolchains at once
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    - Overriding the number of // jobs
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    - Note on // jobs
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    - Tools wrapper
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5- Using the toolchain
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    - The 'populate' script
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6- Toolchain types
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    - Seemingly-native toolchains
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7- Contributing
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    - Sending a bug report
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    - Sending patches
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8- Internals
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    - Makefile front-end
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    - Kconfig parser
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    - Architecture-specific
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    - Adding a new version of a component
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    - Build scripts
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9 - How is a toolchain constructed?
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    - I want a cross-compiler! What is this toolchain you're speaking about?
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    - So, what are those components in a toolchain?
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    - And now, how do all these components chained together?
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    - So the list is complete. But why does crosstool-NG have more steps?
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A- Credits
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B- Known issues
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    - gcc is not found, although I *do* have gcc installed
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    - The extract and/or path steps fail under Cygwin
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    - uClibc fails to build under Cygwin
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    - On 64-bit build systems, the glibc (possibly eglibc too) build
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      fails for 64-bit targets, because it can not find libgcc
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    - libtool.m4: error: problem compiling FC test program
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    - unable to detect the exception model
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    - configure: error: forced unwind support is required
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    - glibc start files and headers fail with: [/usr/include/limits.h] Error 1
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C- Misc. tutorials
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    - Using crosstool-NG on FreeBSD (and other *BSD)
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    - Using crosstool-NG on MacOS-X
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    - Using Mercurial to hack crosstool-NG