making things suck less

I’ve been spending most of the last three days trying to figure out how to get a cross compiler built so that I can use my mac in my icecream compile cluster here at the house. SUSE provides some nice packages for boxes that run linux, but I had to make one for the mac. I’m pleased to say that I’ve succeeded. I used Dan Kegel’s nice crosstool script to build the compiler and used the instructions from the icecream at the opensuse wiki to create the tarball and that was pretty much all there was to it.

Now, I did have some difficulty earlier with trying to use a newer glibc version (i wanted to use the same one as on the suse box). since you’re not linking against it anyways on the mac, i went with an older, actually tested version and all was fine from there.

Now, it’s off to go make my desktop useful for hacking again.