On 30 July 2010 01:37, Grail Dane <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys > Just curious about building a pure 64 system and why in Chapter 10 only some > of the compiled programs use the -m64 setting? > I have also been looking at CBLFS and noticed that a number of there > programs when compiling use: > CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" > Is it just that all programs compiled after gcc in chapter 10 do not support > this feature? > Cheers > grail
If you only have a 64-bit toolchain, passing -m64 is redundant. Does no harm, and can make the book easier to maintain across different architectures, but is not required. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" _______________________________________________ Clfs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-dev-cross-lfs.org
