On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 10:58:48AM -0300, J. Scott Kasten wrote:
> distro and drop them in place, everything seems happy and works fine.
> Thus, there's something funky about the so's I'm building myself.
>
> I've tried building the XFree 4.0.1 libraries, Lesstiff libraries, and
> libraries from our own code base. All breaks the same way.
>
> #1 What form of black magic are you guys using to do this?
Holy Penguin Pee (TM). Available at www.antarctica.com.br ;-)
> #2 Are there specific compiler flags/phases that should/shouldn't be used
> with MIPS arch so's that are different than what I'd normally do under
> Linux?
No compiler flags needed.
> #3 Should I be trying to cross compile the so's them selves instead of
> native builds?
That should make no difference in the resulting binaries if you use the
same versions of everything.
> #4 Are you using different flavors of gcc/binutils to do different jobs
> because of known breakages?
We have various known problems with the various binutils version around.
We're working on getting a current snapshot of binutils working
properly but right now we still have various problems, therefore
egcs 1.0.3a + binutils 2.8.1 is still the recommended version.
Ralf
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