cross-tool

 http://www.crosstool.org/

crosstool-howto

Crosstool is a set of scripts to build and test several versions of gcc and glibc for most architectures supported by glibc. It will even download and patch the original tarballs for you. The resulting script and associated patches, and the latest version of this doc, are available at kegel.com/crosstool.

Crosstool was originally developed for embedded system developers, but is also useful for mainstream developers who simply want their compiles to go fast or who need to build programs that run on older versions of Linux (e.g. Red Hat 6.2), but don't want to develop on those ancient systems.

It includes minimal patches for gcc and glibc needed to build a few combinations of (alpha, arm, i686, ia64, mips, powerpc, powerpc64, sh4, sparc, sparc64, s390, x86_64) x (gcc-2.95.3 ... gcc-4.0.0) x (glibc-2.1.3 ... glibc-2.3.5).

It also supports building toolchains that target Cygwin; see demo-cygwin.sh.

Crosstool is a portable shell script. You can use it to build linux-targeted compilers that run on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Cygwin. It includes support for creating hetrogenous build clusters; it lets you use virtually every computer in the building, regardless of operating system or CPU type, to speed up your Linux compiles.