[fpc-devel] Re: FPC for Linux-ARM

[Henry Vermaak]

On 18/01/11 15:14, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 18/01/11 12:25, Schindler Karl-Michael wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My 2 cents.
>> 1) bintutils:
>> I created a number of fink packages with crosscompilers on Mac OS X,
>> including one for arm-linux. When doing so, informations about
>> building crossbinutils would have been very helpful. Although
>> arm-linux seems to be fairly straight forward, please document the
>> configure options for building the cross binutils.
>
> ./configure --help shows you some options. The only ones you really need
> to care about is --target and --prefix. The build system will be guessed
> and you can have a look at gas/configure.tgt for an idea of the targets.
> Sometimes you will also need --disable-werror, since by default the
> build will fail if there's a warning (iirc).

--disable-nls also makes the build process faster by disabling 
internationalisation.

Henry