gcc cross-compiler for mipsel

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:49 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:12 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 07:24 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:24 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:02 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > > > These are a side effect of a bug somewhere [1]:
> > > > >    /usr/bin/stVv16b0
> > > > >    /usr/bin/stdTtJd1
> > > > >    /usr/bin/stnIJwI1
> > > > >    /usr/bin/stxfFoJZ
> > > 
> > > It looks like a bug in strip whereby it doesn't remove the temporary
> > > file if it doesn't recognize the file format.
> > Sounds plausible to me. If this holds, the origin of these files
> > probably is brp-strip-*, because it blindly runs strip rsp.
> > "<target>-strip" on all binaries and doesn't distinguish between foreign
> > and native binaries.
> > 
> > A straight forward work-around would be to hard-code the directories
> > containing native/foreign binaries into brp-*.
> 
> Or to patch binutils to not leave its junk lying around.
s/Or/And/

These actually are 2 independent issues. brp-*'s deficiencies trigger a
bug in binutils.

Ralf