Hi, After having successfully built a cross-compiling toolchain thanks to cross-lfs (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ryan/scripts/cross-lfs/), I'm trying to adapt the wonderful scripts written by Ryan Oliver for the Linux From Scratch system, to the form of some Pkgbuild package building scripts. Unfortunately while trying to accomplish this task I'm facing some problems, first of all the choice of the cross-compiling toolchain default location. What do you think is the best location in the filesystem for the cross-compiling toolchain or, in other words, what do you think is the best configure time prefix to use? At the moment I put it into /opt/ppc/usr but I wonder whether is there a way to make it to coexist with the "regular" toolchain in /usr or whether is there a better location to put it into. Another problem I'm facing from the package management point of view are the files that gcc and glibc share among the different build steps. Maybe it's a bit Off Topic but I hope some of you have some experiences to share. Let's take for example the case of gcc. The gcc-static package shares all of its files with the gcc-shared package while the following files are included in the gcc-shared package only. $PREFIX/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/3.3.3-hammer/libgcc_eh.a $PREFIX/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/ $PREFIX/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/ $PREFIX/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgcc_s.so -> libgcc_s.so.1 $PREFIX/powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 Should gcc-shared be seen as a gcc-static "upgrade"? Or may I safely delete from the gcc-shared package all the files already installed by gcc-static and leave only the new ones (namely libgcc_eh.a and libgcc_s.so*)? What when, just like in the case of the different glibc builds, the two packages shares only some files? Thanks in advance. Best regards. -- Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history. ``Don't bother us with politics,'' respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard M. Stallman http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html