ARM-GCC Toolchain setup (Linux) for AT91SAM7S-EK

Kshitij Singh wrote:
> I have a Dell XPS-M1530 running Ubuntu 8.10. I downloaded the GNU-ARM
> distribution and managed to install binutils and GCC flawlessly using
> the commands provided on the support page. Newlib gave an
> "arm-elf-gcc/arm-elf-cc not found" error despite the variables being
> added to PATH (I checked it by running them through the command line);
> so I added symbolic links to the contents of the entire
> "/usr/local/arm/bin" in the /bin directory and this kind of worked. Now
> I am getting the following error: "as: unrecognized command option:
> -mfloat-abi". Is there a simpler solution? Kindly help.

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anything.

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regards,
Giovanni
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ChibiOS/RT http://chibios.sourceforge.net

Eh, I know what CodeSourcery offers :P ; its just that I'm too addicted
to Eclipse and having the GNU ARM Eclipse plugin(which, unfortunately,
recognizes only Yagarto, GCC-ARM) gives the GCC-ARM package a nice
advantage. CodeSourcery does sell a personal version which has an
Eclipse plugin, but I'm not willing to shell out the moolah right now
;). Thanks, however, for replying.
Getting back to my problem, I ran a check on my system and 'as' does
recognize the "-mfloat-abi=soft" option, so I still dunno what the issue
is. But, I did come across multiple posts on google referring to newlib
installation problems.


Regards,
Kshitij