On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:41:35 GMT, Ludovic Henry <luhe...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Currently, when passing --with-binutils-src, binutils is built in the source 
>> tree. That leads to conflicting targets when compiling for different 
>> architectures (ex: amd64 on the host, and riscv64 or aarch64 for the target) 
>> from the same jdk source tree.
>> 
>> The simplest solution is to build binutils out-of-tree and into the 
>> build/<target>/binutils folder. These out-of-tree builds are already 
>> supported by binutils and only require some changes in the way we invoke the 
>> binutils/configure command.
>
> Ludovic Henry has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Remove unrelated change
>  - Merge branch 'master' of github.com:openjdk/jdk into 
> dev/ludovic/upstream-hsdis-cross-compile
>  - 8295262: Build binutils out of source tree
>    
>    Currently, when passing --with-binutils-src, binutils is built in the 
> source tree. That leads to conflicting targets when compiling for different 
> architectures (ex: amd64 on the host, and riscv64 or aarch64 for the target) 
> from the same jdk source tree.
>    
>    The simplest solution is to build binutils out-of-tree and into the 
> build/<target>/binutils folder. These out-of-tree builds are already 
> supported by binutils and only require some changes in the way we invoke the 
> binutils/configure command.

I think we want to ask @magicus about this as well, maybe he will discover some 
unusual quirks in this code. Otherwise, I'll sponsor.

-------------

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10689

Reply via email to