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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:06:24 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org>, ticso@cicely.de, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Building an ARM/RPI-B release (hacked) on CURRENT/AMD64.
Message-ID:  <20140418000624.GB49791@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <94BF7018-052C-430D-85D8-CAE14EA63270@grondar.org>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:56:16PM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
>=20
> On 17 Apr 2014, at 21:50, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> > On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 20:54 +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
> >> I=E2=80=99m guessing (more like hoping) that once the boot bits work, =
they=E2=80=99ll be pretty stable for a given platform for a while, and the =
=2Eimg file could be kept under src/release/=E2=80=A6 somewhere. This way, =
it doesn=E2=80=99t matter if some humongous GCC port is used for cross-buil=
ding; this would be only needed when the boot-bits change.
> >> <thinking>
> >=20
> > I'm not very familiar with crochet, but I'm confused now... Tim K. is
> > the creator of crochet, and he's the maintainer of the
> > u-boot-beaglebone-eabi port, which uses the gcc cross-compiler from
> > ports.  So did Tim not use his own excellent port in crochet?
>=20
> No, and it may have something to do with ports/lang/arm-*-(binutils|gcc) =
being a bit unstable (By that I mean they kinda came-and-went, and which to=
 use was quite a guessing game. This is now moot as there is now the useful=
-looking gcc-arm-ports/devel/embedded which seems to enjoy a lot of TLC!).
>=20

You *can* use the lang/arm-* stuff, but I have been unable to get it to
work, so for the release/arm/release.sh, I don't use it.

Glen


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