gcc failing for mips cross-compile

[hiren panchasara]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Dimitry Andric <dimitry at andric.com> wrote:

> On Sep 27, 2013, at 22:07, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> ...
> >> So, following worked:
> >> sudo make TARGET=mips TARGET_ARCH=mipseb TARGET_CPUARCH=mips toolchain
> >>
> >> What does that mean?
> >>
> >> how do I get/know 32bit mips setup?
>
> Reading https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/BuildingMIPS , it seems just
> "mips" means 32-bit big-endian, using the old ABI.  If you want the new
> ABI, use "mipsn32" instead.


> I have just tried "make TARGET=mips toolchain", and that seemed to work
> fine.
>

Thanks a ton for clarification, Dimitry.

Appreciate your help.

Cheers,
Hiren