Re: crosscompiling binutils

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:34:27PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 08:52:48AM -0700, Mike Larkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 04:26:37PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if binutils-2.17 will be that version for the next foreseeable
> > > future? Reason being is that there is backports to RISCV's binutils but they
> > > don't go that low to 2.17. Since I'm lazy, I don't really want to port
> > > binutils to 2.17 for any architecture if it's not already done so.
> > > Unfortunately I only invested a handful of days looking into the problem and
> > > just as many procrastinating around this.
> > >
> > > I lost contact to the riscv group, but if I rejoin them I'd like to give them
> > > something and not just look happy. :-)
> > >
> > > Peace.
> > > -peter
> >
> > Any idea why you feel this is needed? After all, the tree in that repo already
> > builds cleanly without needing to do this.
> >
> > Ps that workspace is still open, just a bit idle the last few months.
> >
> > -ml
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> How do you build the userland tree? Do you hash out the binutils part? I
> know there is the binutils that I think Mars put together, but it's not 2.17,
> (working off memory here).
>
> I'll have to look for my credentials for the riscv groups chat. I must have
> lost the cookie and url completion from my browser. When I find that I'll be
> back.
>
> Best Regards,
> -peter

I believe they were using the llvm ld and such. I'll ask.

-ml