From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15045 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2007 08:11:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 15032 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Dec 2007 08:11:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:11:14 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0umF-00079D-L0; Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:11:11 +0000 Message-ID: <475A519F.34C2FD07@dessent.net> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:11:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent Reply-To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Krischik CC: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: GMP and MPFR (Was: GCC does not build gfortran !!) References: <765852.6744.qm@web51303.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20071207162437.2vor9b2qpwosgkk0@server265-han.de-nserver.de> <200712080902.41508.krischik@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00172.txt.bz2 Martin Krischik wrote: > And another thing just struck me: We from the Ada community use cross > compilers for embedded targets a lot. Targets which might not even have an > operating system. How is this supposed to work in future? > > Or not quite a drastic: Cross compiling on Windows for VMS. Do GMP and MPFR > cross compile for VMS. Do they compile for VMS at all. Or for Symbian to name > a new and hip OS for contrast. They're host libraries, not target libraries. They don't have to build for the target system. They are used by gcc itself, not by code that gcc creates. Brian