--- In Jason Stahls <> wrote:
>
> I've never used the IDE, but I have two other solutions. One, grab
some
> junker PC around, install Linux on it and the cross-compile
environment
> to compile the kernel in. Two, use NFs to mount a network drive on
the
> 7800 so you can store the source there and compile native. You may
have
> to setup a swap file over NFS as well as the kernel compile can be
> memory hungry.
Having had no luck at all comprehending what little documentation I've
found for the cross-compiler system, I'm trying option two, but it
appears that the ts7800_config and/or the kernel Makefile(s) have deeply
built assumptions about the which cross-compiler you're using, and where
it is installed. And, of course, I wanted to start with the traditional
"make menuconfig" but libncurses5-dev isn't installed and "apt-get
install libncurses5-dev" results is an error about broken packages, so I
wasted a couple hours tracking it down manually and getting it installed
despite apt-get's refusal. I managed to get it to load
ts7800full_config and browsed the settings, but CONFIG_HZ doesn't appear
to be one of them (or it is well hidden) so I changed it manually. I
commented out the CROSS_COMPILE setting in Makefile and added an empty
value for it. "make ts7800full_config" appears to have worked (as did
"make oldconfig" which appears unnecessary, but was recommended by the
Technologic FAQ. However, "make dep" fails almost immediately with a
ton of warnings about time tags from the future and this one:
make:
/usr/local/src/mv-kernel/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnuea\
bi-gcc: Command not found
That is most definitely NOT the compiler I'm trying to use, so where did
make get it in its little head to wander off the path to that place?
Sigh. Has Technologic shared (without an NDA) their preferred
cross-compiler installation and kernel build layout and all that with
anyone? Most of the answers I've gotten directly boil down to, "You
should already know that if you're going to be developing for linux or
you can pay us lots of money to do it for you."
Sorry, months and months of this has left me more frustrated than a
decade without sex.
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