Re: Trouble compiling MIPS cross-compiler

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Adam Nielsen wrote:
> > as: unrecognized option `-O2'
> 
> Ok, I just worked out the problem - or at least I discovered a workaround.  
> If 
> I run:
> 
>       ./configure --prefix=/usr/local [...]
> 
> then I get the error during compilation, but if instead I run
> 
>       ./configure --prefix=/usr [...]
> 
> then it appears to work perfectly...!
> 
> No idea what's going on, but at least it works and hopefully it won't 
> overwrite my existing compiler when I install it ;-)

IIRC you need to configure with AS=mips-linux-as.


Thiemo