From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31569 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2003 14:11:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 17357 invoked from network); 23 Jun 2003 13:15:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (146.82.138.56) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 2003 13:15:20 -0000 Received: from dsl093-172-017.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.172.17] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19URAw-0004FE-00; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:16:02 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19URA2-0006XH-00; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:15:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:50:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Peter Barada Cc: dank@kegel.com, zack@codesourcery.com, pinskia@physics.uc.edu, wilson@tuliptree.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: cross-compilation documentation Message-ID: <20030623131506.GA25101@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Barada , dank@kegel.com, zack@codesourcery.com, pinskia@physics.uc.edu, wilson@tuliptree.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <878yruf1pl.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <3EF5FACA.9020400@kegel.com> <87znkadj94.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> <20030622193607.98A4D98DFD@baradas.org> <20030622194204.GA7163@nevyn.them.org> <20030623024805.6D3E998DFD@baradas.org> <3EF66E11.3080509@kegel.com> <20030623025952.CE49398DFD@baradas.org> <20030623042231.GA19910@nevyn.them.org> <20030623130906.F20F198DFD@baradas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030623130906.F20F198DFD@baradas.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-06/txt/msg01913.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:09:06AM -0400, Peter Barada wrote: > > >> But this fragment *requires* a cross-compiler to build it. I'm sure I > > > >Not really. I do it with a sufficiently new native compiler to run > >configure. Configure determines $target by the command line arguments, > >not by querying the $CC you specify. > > Huh? what do you mean by a 'sufficently new *native* compiler to run > configure'. Is that native compiler for x86(BUILD) or > ppc-linux(TARGET)? Yes, build. Just one which passes the version checks in glibc's configure script, or one slightly older and disable the checks. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer