From: Mark Allums <mark_at_allums.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:27:26 -0600

Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Mike Giacomelli schrieb:
>>
>> Any interest in trying 4.3.2? Some people have reported performance
>> improvements with newer GCC versions for ARM and Coldfire. I tried
>> compiling 4.3.2 but got stuck and haven't had time to look into it.

> Sure. IIRC you had problems with binutils? Would it be possible to use
> the binutils version Mark Allums used? He doesn't seem to have problems
> with that.


I had the problem compiling the libssp bit, which seems the norm with
recent versions of gcc, and I used the "--enable-libssp=no" workaround
during the configure step.

I used the Debian source for binutils, but there are patches that it
comes with. It was unclear whether they needed to be applied, or were
already in the Debian version. Anyway, I skipped them, and everything
seems to have gone well. That is something I need to look into further.

I used the 2.19.1 binutils, which seems to be the latest.

Mark Allums
Received on 2009-02-24