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["Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>]

On Thu,  4 Sep 2003 08:53:56 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote

> We (as in you, me, and anyone else working on other architectures) could
> probably work together to add those options to gcc.  What I mean is, 
> when you cast gcc, it could ask if you would like to choose which 
> architectures (other than your current) you would like gcc to be 
> able to build for, it could then popup a dialog (it's the easiest 
> way to show all the options, unless you want to sit there and say 
> 'y'|'n' to however many other archs we put on there) with a list of 
> architectures (all the sparc ones (about 7, IIRC), ppc, arm, alpha,
>  mips, etc.).
> 
> Or does the source code for gcc not support that (it should, but 
> just checking)?
> 
> Thoughts?
 
sandalle,

That is a good idea - except for the fact you need glibc and binutils compiled
for the target arch to be able to compile the full gcc (not just the c
compiler, but c++, etc.). So that is where I am now - I need a bootstrap
compiler/binutils/glibc. We could change a lot of the gcc spell, creating the
binaries for the arches that user selects, then compiling binutils and glibc
just with the c compiler, then compiling the whole lot for all the selected
architectures. Or we could create a cross-compile gcc spell to do this,
depending on a z-rejected style binary bootstrap.

Time, as usual is short... :(

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