[29OCT03 - JWS]

NOTE: Because these tools were developed on a RedHat 8 system, you will need
to have your glibc updated to at least the version used by RH8 if you want
to run the binary image without building your own toolset.

Coming soon to an ftp site near you: GCC-3.3 for Xscale!
No, but seriously, folks, for 2.5.x and 2.6.x-pre we should be trying to 
advance to the next level.  gcc-3.3 reportedly generates better, more compact
code, although there may still be a few issues.  Currently compiling a cross-
development tool chain isn't completely error free, some hand hacks are 
required along the way.  I will have a toolchain for an i386 host here any
day now, but in the meantime here are a few hints:

Binutils 2.13.2.1 needs a little fix to avoid a problem with 2.5.x and later
kernels.  This is a latent issue that the new code exposed in binutils.
Please apply the binutils.patch to binutils-2.13.2.1 before proceeding. 
Basically this brings Binutils 2.13.2.1 up to Binutils version 2.14.   Ralph
Siemsen of Netwinder.org has provided a patch to glibc-2.3.2-200304030432 to
improve operation of position independent code.  Config and compile in the
usual way.  A sed script bug we're still chasing causes the glibc compile to
halt in a couple of places.  Merely edit libc.so and libpthread.so in your
glibc's build directory and comment out the BUG statement.  The BUG appears to
be benign but this is still being investigated as of 7/14/03. (Has been
resolved in later versions of glibc- JWS 29OCT03).

The following sources are used (in addition to the patches listed) for
building these tools:

binutils-2.13.2.1
gcc-3.3
glibc-2.3.2-200304020432

Download and bunzip2 toolchain-gcc-3.3.tar.bz2.  It will install by default
under /usr/local/armlinux so make sure your permissions are set appropriately,
and that your distro has a fairly recent glibc.  

Have fun! (and hope you have a fast machine if you want to build your own...)
-Jeff Sutherland