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* Christoph Spielmann <spielc@×××××.com> schrieb: |
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> Well in terms of crossdev i686-gentoo-linux-gnu-gcc is not a valid |
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> target (just look at the output of crossdev --help). |
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Somehow, I'm not surprised at all ... ;-o |
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> If you want to build x86-code on a machine using a x86-compiler |
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> why would you want to use a cross-compilation-environment anyway? |
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For isolated builds ? Eg. building for different ABIs, etc ? |
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Or to find stupid things like AC_TRY_RUN() more easily ? |
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> The idea of using cross-compilation is to build stuff for another |
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> target than the target of the host-compiler... E.g. build arm-code |
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> on a x86-machine or compile stuff for ppc on a x86-64-machine. |
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A target's binary/runtime environment is defined by way more |
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parameters than just CPU's instruction set. |
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BTW: I'm often building binpkgs for certain foreign x86 systems |
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(small or special purpose devices, ancient distros, etc, etc) |
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by - guess what - crosscompiling. |
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