buildtoolchain - scripts for building toolchains

overview

In the course of working on the research-based operating system K42, I've needed to build a few toolchains, using gcc, glibc and binutils. With the sometimes-complex dependencies between these packages, I've built a few scripts to automate the process.

details

The BuildToolchain system has two parts:

build script

A general (shell script) framework for configuring, building and installing a number of packages in a certain order.

Download here

This script depends on bash (hence the #!/bin/bash) - it uses some features that are fairly bash-specific

Run as: 

./buildtoolchain <definition-file>

definition files

Defines the packages to be built, and how to build each one.

The following definition files are available: