making the cross tools

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <4A130E2A.3060900 at telenix.org>
            Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> writes:
: Referring to the "Mini-install guide" that's on the Arm web page, I've
: built/installed the compiler, but when I got to the 2nd set of instructions,
: about building the binutils, it gives me this error after doing quite a bit of
: building:
: 
: make: don't know how to make /usr/cross/usr/lib/libc.a. Stop
: *** Error code 2
: 
: The DESTDIR is /usr/cross, and the command itself from the guide sets the
: TOOLS_PREFIX also to /usr/cross.  Any idea what's going on, that it's refusing
: to use my system libc.a?  It's a cross-compiler here, which means it's going to
: execute here on my i386 machine, so it really SHOULD use my local libc.a (not
: some libc.a for the Arm arch), right?

Please provide a reference here to the URL you are using, since this
makes no sense at all...  TOOLS_RPEFIX isn't a FreeBSDism.

Warner