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Building GCC for Cortex

Yes, sorry about that, forgot to update. Apparently, binutils 2.19.1 is
broken (at least on ARM builds), so use
binutils-2.19.50.tar.bz2<ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.19.50.tar.bz2>from
here:

ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/

Everything else should remain unchanged.

Best,
Bogdan


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM, John Hind <john.hind at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> I am trying to follow the tutorial "Building GCC for Cortex", but I am new
> to Ubuntu and am running into the sand at Step 1 (the easiest step!). As it
> has already taken me several hours of head-banging to get this far, I am
> appealing for help!
>
> The problem starts with the "make all" step (for binutils). It terminates
> with "make: *** [all] Error 2". A few lines above this there are 5
> occurrences of "tc-arm.c: xxxx: error: format not a string literal and no
> format arguments".
>
> I have tried the complete procedure to this point several times, with both
> the latest release (binutils-2.19.1.tar.bz2) and the recommended one
> (binutils-2.19.tar.bz2) always with the same result. This on a fresh
> installation of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop.
>
> Anyone solved this one before or do I need to do some more head-banging?
>
>
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