A special linux distribution for developing OLPC applications

[Rob Savoye]

Ivan Krstić wrote:

> Rob has posted here before. Adding him to CC to make sure he spots this
> thread.

  Nope, hadn't seen this thread. You can grab the initial tarball from
http://gnash.lulu.com/olpc. I added the crude patch I made to the config
files. While this works for me Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy -> OLPC, it should also
work on any GNU/Linux host, as I tried to include all the stuff GCC
depends on at runtime. Use the "i386-olpc-linux" as your config triplet.
Install the tarball in /usr/local. i386-olpc-linux-gcc is the compiler
to use. I also added C++ support, since Gnash is written in C++.

  I cross compile by setting the additional configure arguments
--prefix=/usr/local/olpc --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-olpc-linux.

  I hear rumors somebody is adding Geode specific optimizations to GCC,
if so, then this should actually be geode-olpc-linux, but I guess I'll
worry about it when it shows up in GCC CVS. For now, I just treat it as
the "manufacturer" field of the config triplet and build a stock linux
tool chain. The main advantage of doing it this way is it keeps your
host libraries from contaminating the cross build, which should avoid
weird problems down the road.

  At some other time, we'd need to figure out how to keep all the
libraries and headers up to date in the cross tool chain.

	- rob -