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+DEPENDS = "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}binutils ${NATIVEDEPS}"
+PROVIDES = "virtual/${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc-initial"
+PACKAGES = ""
+
+INHIBIT_AUTOTOOLS_DEPS = "1"
+INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS = "1"
+
+PN = "gcc-cross-initial-${TARGET_ARCH}"
+
+CROSS_TARGET_SYS_DIR_append = ".${PN}"
+
+# This is intended to be a -very- basic config
+# sysroot is needed in case we use libc-initial
+EXTRA_OECONF = "\
+    --with-newlib \
+    --without-headers \
+    --disable-shared \
+    --disable-threads \
+    --disable-multilib \
+    --disable-__cxa_atexit \
+    --enable-languages=c \
+    ${OPTSPACE} \
+    --program-prefix=${TARGET_PREFIX} \
+    --with-sysroot=/not/exist \
+    --with-build-sysroot=${GCCCROSS_BUILDSYSROOT} \
+    ${EXTRA_OECONF_INITIAL} \
+    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '--with-ld=${STAGING_BINDIR_TOOLCHAIN}/${TARGET_PREFIX}ld.bfd', '', d)} \
+    ${EXTRA_OECONF_GCC_FLOAT} \
+"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-native-system-header-dir=${SYSTEMHEADERS}"
+
+GCCCROSS_BUILDSYSROOT = "${B}/tmpsysroot"
+
+do_configure_prepend () {
+	sysr=${GCCCROSS_BUILDSYSROOT}${target_includedir}
+	mkdir -p $sysr
+	for t in linux asm asm-generic; do
+		rm -f $sysr/$t
+		ln -s ${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${target_includedir}/$t $sysr/
+	done
+}
+
+do_compile () {
+    oe_runmake all-gcc configure-target-libgcc
+}
+do_install () {
+	( cd ${B}/${TARGET_SYS}/libgcc; oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' install-unwind_h )
+	oe_runmake 'DESTDIR=${D}' install-gcc
+
+	# We don't really need this (here shares/ contains man/, info/, locale/).
+	rm -rf ${D}${datadir}/
+
+	# We use libiberty from binutils
+	find ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib -name libiberty.a | xargs rm -f
+	find ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib -name libiberty.h | xargs rm -f
+
+	# Insert symlinks into libexec so when tools without a prefix are searched for, the correct ones are
+	# found. These need to be relative paths so they work in different locations.
+	dest=${D}${libexecdir}/gcc/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/
+	install -d $dest
+	useld=${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ld-is-gold', '.bfd', '', d)}
+	ln -sf ${BINRELPATH}/${TARGET_PREFIX}ld${useld} ${dest}ld
+	for t in ar as nm objcopy objdump ranlib strip g77 gcc cpp gfortran; do
+		ln -sf ${BINRELPATH}/${TARGET_PREFIX}$t $dest$t
+	done
+	# fixed limits.h infact includes the so called real limits.h
+	# which should come from libc but when we build libc-initial
+	# then bunch of configure tests include fixed limits.h which in turn
+	# includes real limits.h but this real limits.h is not staged yet
+	# so we overwirte the generated include-fixed/limits.h for gcc-cross-initial
+	# to get rid references to real limits.h
+	cp gcc/include-fixed/limits.h ${D}${gcclibdir}/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/include/limits.h
+
+	# gcc-runtime installs libgcc into a special location in staging since it breaks doing a standalone build
+	case ${PN} in
+		*gcc-cross-initial-${TARGET_ARCH}|*gcc-crosssdk-initial-${TARGET_ARCH})
+			dest=${D}/${includedir}/gcc-build-internal-initial-${TARGET_SYS}
+			hardlinkdir . $dest
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+#
+# Override the default sysroot staging copy since this won't look like a target system
+#
+sysroot_stage_all() {
+	sysroot_stage_dir ${D} ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}
+	install -d ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${target_base_libdir}/
+	install -d ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${target_libdir}/
+	mv ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${target_base_libdir}/* ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${target_base_libdir}/ || true
+	mv ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${target_libdir}/* ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}${target_libdir}/ || true
+}
+
+do_populate_sysroot[sstate-inputdirs] = "${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}/${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/ ${SYSROOT_DESTDIR}/${STAGING_DIR_TARGET}/${target_base_libdir}/"
+do_populate_sysroot[sstate-outputdirs] = "${STAGING_DIR_HOST}/ ${STAGING_DIR_TCBOOTSTRAP}/${target_base_libdir}/"
+