Re: [gccsdk] Recommended autobuilder/packages/etc distros

In message <537BAB40.6080304@sky.com>
Lee Noar <leenoar@sky.com> wrote:

> On 20/05/14 11:20, Theo Markettos wrote:
> > A few questions regarding the current situation of GCCSDK and the
> > autobuilder packages, because I haven't been keeping up to date:
> >
> > 1. What's the recommended host distro for building GCC and autobuilder
> > packages? Debian, Ubuntu? What version?
>
> I think anything debian based, I currently use Linux Mint 15, which is
> derived from Ubuntu Raring, without any trouble.

I'm using Mint 16. Anything debian based is a safe choice. I believe
we had reported issues for Cygwin and I'm not sure if that's still used
to build gccsdk by someone. Knowing that Cygwin is pretty slow, I doubt
this is a viable option.

For building gccsdk, we used to be sensitive to distro flavors because
gcc/binutils really require exact autotool versions which were then taken
from the host. That was unpredictable and sometimes required manually
installing the right versions. Currently we're building the required
autotools versions ourselves and that solved those gccsdk building issues.

However, for the Autobuilder, some packages do autoreconf (or something
similar to recreate the autotools files) and that still takes the autotools
versions installed on the host which makes building with Autobuilder
unpredictable. We could do the same thing as gccsdk, building the
required autotool version needed for those packages.

John.
--
John Tytgat, in his comfy chair at home
John.Tytgat@aaug.net

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