On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:23:39AM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Ranjit Mathew wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > I think "make bootstrap" does not make sense for > >cross builds. We however seem to allow it but > >fail in a weird way later on (as on mainline). > >I think this should not be allowed. > > > >I discovered this when I mistakenly typed > >"make bootstrap" out of habit on a cross build. > > Huh? there is one case where this does makes sense, take for example: > ppc64-linux-gnu, you were running the ppc-linux-gnu compiled GCC and > you need > a 64bit compatible one. You can compile with --with-cpu=default32 and > still > have a "cross" compiler but can still do a native compiling, it is > weird case > but it does show up.
I always set build, host, and target to powerpc64-linux when bootstrapping a biarch compiler, and use --with-cpu=default32 to generate 32-bit binaries by default. I seem to recall running into problems when they weren't all the same for bootstraps. Janis
