Good point, but then I don't understand why you want to install *CROSS* Linux from scratch. Can't you do simply Linux From Scratch?
cheers, toto -------------------------------------- Antonio Bulgheroni, PhD http://unico-lab.blogspot.com “There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don’t.” On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:52 AM, booleandomain <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a CLFS newbie. I don't understand why cross-compiling tools such as > binutils and gcc. Let me explain. My CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo. The host > system is Gentoo Linux running on that CPU. uname -m returns x86_64. I want > my target Linux system to run on the same computer as the host system, so > the target should return x86_64 too. So why putting x86_64-cross-linux-gnu > for --build and --host and x86_64-pc-linux-gnu for --target? It should be > build=host=target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (native mode). > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Clfs-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org >
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