Re: [gentoo-embedded] toolchain.eclass and cross-compiling gcc

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 01 September 2007, Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:03:58PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > is_crosscompile is used to detect whether we're building a
> > cross-compiler, not whether we're cross-compiling the compiler
>
> Suggest name change to is_crosscompiler

makes sense

> > > The point is though, that even for straight cross-compiles it's
> > > usually more dependent on CHOST being set to a different
> > > architecture than CTARGET.
> >
> > in the normal case, CTARGET is never set ... however, for all
> > toolchain based packages, the three tuples (CBUILD CHOST CTARGET)
> > are made sure to be set to the correct value
>
> What about those --enable-serial-* though? Is there a better
> solution for the author's problem?

i really dont have an idea of what the problem is.  i build cross-compilers 
and cross-compile native compilers and cross-compile cross-compilers and have 
yet to hit any problems (which are not fixed in the current tree).
-mike