Well, ours is configured as arm-empeg-linux :-) but apart from that you're correct.

We're running egcs-1.1.2 with philb's 19990325 patch and binutils 2.9.1.0.19a with philb's 19981230 patch. These are all quite old versions now and I'll probably try and play with gcc-2.95 and the 2.9.5 versions of binutils soon.

We did have trouble building the toolchain the first time but the most important thing to remember is when building gcc don't worry if it dies with an error - you've probably got enough of it compiled to build a libc and that's what you need to build the rest. Once you've built libc you can go back and build the rest of gcc including g++ and even the Fortran compiler I believe.

Also, take a look at http://developer.intel.com/design/strong/applnots/sa1100lx/getstart.htm

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)