which toolchain & distro ?

[Michele Brocco]

On 12/20/10, Al Johnson <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 19 December 2010, sohail abbasi wrote:
>> Hi all ,
>>
>> please suggest me which toolchain from armv4t,v6,7a,v6-novfp from
>> http://buildhost.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/sdk/ should i use ? I have
>> ubuntu-8 server on x86 and want to cross compile application for my Neo
>> Free runner , running SHR. Also which SHR distro i should use ,testing or
>> unstable ?
>> I would be grateful.
>
> Freerunner is armv4t. The others are for more recent handsets like the HTC
> Dream, Palm Pre and n900.
>
> Testing or unstable is really your choice. Testing is intended not to have
> major bugs, and not to introduce them, but won't get bug fixes as quickly.
> Unstable may break when you update it, but will have the most recent
> features
> and bug fixes. Which would you prefer?
>
additionally you should check if the toolchains in the repository (64
bit) can be used in your x86 system. if not, some toolchain feature
such as opkg-target won't work and you will have to build your own in
case you need them (from my point of view very useful)