Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 14:10:20 and regarding:
Those packages are not essential to your system. binutils-uclibc and cross-arm-elf-binutils are primarily developer tools.
Yes,
I loaded them because there are a couple of apps that I want to try and cross compile. I guess they are fine where they are, but shouldn't the install packages have put them somewhere else?
I don't think so. It's common practice to put cross compilation tools in non-standard places, so you don't accidentally end up compiling something on your x86 system for an arm processor.
A while back, there was some discussion about cross-compliers and trying to be more FHS compliant. The suggestion was to put them in /usr/lib/cross-<target>. See: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cross_Compiling_Tools_Package_Guidelines... I posted a set of PKGBUILDs for the mingw32 cross compiler. Allan