[Buildroot] building ARM toolchain with nofpu

James Newell jnewell at wgate.com
Fri Feb 9 01:41:53 UTC 2007


The buildroot only seems to go to gcc 4.0.3? 

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 21:36 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 212, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Short answer: it does not work.
> > See: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29329  [1]
> > (not directly related, but yet, useless on ARM).
> 
> I realise I'm being vague. Some explanations below.
> 
> In fact, the patch I posted allows one to successfully build a x-compiler
> for soft-float armeb (mine is armeb-xscale-linux-uclibc, tuned for Xscale).
> Unfortunately, the resulting gcc barfs on the squashfs code in the kernel.
> A smaller test-case is available in the bug report, suggesting this is quite
> easy to hit.
> 
> That's why I've reverted to gcc-4.0.4, which still needs the attached patch,
> but Just Work (TM).
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 




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