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[ts-7000] Re: Dev Kit(TS7250) Crosstool versions.

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Dev Kit(TS7250) Crosstool versions.
From: "naturalwatt" <>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:10:01 -0000
--- In  "jdsjls2002" <> wrote:
>
> What is the difference between the cross tool chain versions on the
> TS7250 development kit CD?  Why would I choose one over another?
> 
> I am interested in one of the linux versions.  My host system is
> Ubuntu 8.04.
> 
> John Sotack
>

If no-one as answered this, I'll have a go.  If I get it wrong, I hope someone 
jumps on me 
quickly.

There are some tight and subtle dependancies between the kernel version, and 
the version 
of glibc used to link running programs, AND the version of gcc used AND ther 
version of 
binutils which is things like as (assembler) ar (archiver) and so on.

Basically, for a specific kernel, it is very likely that only one combination 
of kernel, 
compiler, libary and tools is ever going to work.  Just to add to the fun, 
Technologic have 
strewn some red herrings in your path.  It was hard to write - it should be 
hard to read!

Unless you have highly advanced or specific needs, you will use the kernel 
which comes 
on the TS7250 which is 2.4.26-ts11.  As far as I can tell, the only version of 
gcc and bligc 
which will work with this compiler is GCC 3-3-4 and GLibc 2.3.2.  Look in /lib 
- it's all 
2.3.2.

Which answers your question - use 
crosstool-linux-gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2-0.28rc39 as 
it's the only one that meets all the criteria.

This is re-inforced by the demo-arm.sh file provided with the crosstools-0.43 
package, 
which lists variants that some people claim to have got working.

As far as I can tell, GCC 4.0 and above goes with the 2.6 kernel, not the 2.4 
that ships 
with the TS7250.

The version of your host system doesn't really matter, but if it runs Linux on 
an Intel 
processor, you can indeed use the prebuilt toolchain instead of suffering the 
grief that I 
am going through, which is trying to build different toolchain versions on OSX  
with a PPC 
processor.

Martin


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