Crossdev for Ubuntu?

[mikeym]

Hi,

I'm trying to setup my Ubuntu desktop to help my gentoo laptop compile using distcc.

I'm almost through their guide but it says you have to setup a cross-toolchain on my machine for the architecture of my laptop. Gentoo has a tool for this crossdev is there one for Ubuntu?

[mikeym]

Hmmm.... not found one, but I've found a guide (http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/crossdev/crossdev-powerpc-i686.html) based on the approach of crossdev.

But I'm still stuck. I get as far as installing the kernel-headers (http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/crossdev/crossdev-powerpc-i686.html#doc_chap4_sect6) (which is the first thing I need to compile on my Ubuntu machine to allow it to compile for my PowerPC) and I get an error about not having the PowerPc version of gcc.

make: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc: Command not found

Which is not right as this is the program I eventually hoping to compile!

Has anyone any ideas?

(edit) This is the actuall line it fails on:

make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu- mrproper

Well almost :) I found that it complains if I use the line above:

arch/ppc/Makefile: No such file or directory

so I chaecked the arch folder and found that there was a powerpc folder so I tried:

make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu- mrproper

Which is where I get the error.

[mikeym]

Well I gave up on the guide, but I had an idea. I've been working on installing gentoo on my AMD64 machine which I want to use as a distcc client so I used the gentoo cross development tool to compile a toolchain for the AMD64 machine.

Is it possible then just to copy the toolchain from my gentoo partition to my ubuntu partition?

If it is where do I need to put them for distcc to use them? And do I need to link them?