A special linux distribution for developing OLPC applications

[Manish Regmi]

On 1/7/07, Rob Savoye <rob at welcomehome.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
IIRC the new gcc 4.3 has geode specfic optimizations using -mtune=geode and
-march=geode
Is the crosstool really necessary if the "normal" gcc creates geode tuned
x86 binaries just by using a switch?


regards
Manish Regmi
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