Beagle board Bootloader compilation

[shariefbe]

ello,

i saw all the steps for compiling in the beagleboard website. i am getting some errors while doing that steps. now i have to boot from mmc card. for that i installed tollchain fpr ARM processor in my host computer. AFter installing that toolchain i gave "make" to compile "xloader". But found the following error

"root@ariem-desktop:/home/xloader# make
arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc -Wa,-gstabs -D__ASSEMBLY__ -g -Os -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -ffixed-r8 -D__KERNEL__ -DTEXT_BASE=0x40200800 -I/home/xloader/include -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.3/include -pipe -DCONFIG_ARM -D__ARM__ -march=armv7-a -c -o cpu/omap3/start.o /home/xloader/cpu/omap3/start.S
make: arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc: Command not found
make: *** [cpu/omap3/start.o] Error 127
root@ariem-desktop:/home/xloader# "

i dont know what is wrong

[jkridner]

'make' isn't finding your compiler in the path. One way to add it to your path would be like:

$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/arm-2007q3/bin

Be sure to use the correct path for where you installed the compiler.

[shariefbe]

yes i think you are right. i installed my compiler in /home/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin

So shall i export the path as

export PATH=$PATH:/home//CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin

or

export ARM_TOOLCHAIN=/home/ariem/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/

is it right? which is correct one?

Then what will come for

export CROSS_COMPILE=

why it is needed?