A shell to make the cross compiler installation (from BeagleBone Black) quick and easy

beagle_compiler_installer.sh

# get file from source
wget -c https://releases.linaro.org/14.03/components/toolchain/binaries/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux.tar.xz

# uncompress file
tar xf gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux.tar.xz

# copy uncompressed file to /opt/
sudo cp -r gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux /opt/

# remove downloaded files
rm -rf gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux.tar.xz gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux

# add an alias to call compilers as 'arm-gcc' or 'arm-g++'
echo "alias arm-gcc='/opt/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc'" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "alias arm-g++='/opt/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.03_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++'" >> ~/.bashrc