* Christoph Spielmann <[email protected]> schrieb: > Well in terms of crossdev i686-gentoo-linux-gnu-gcc is not a valid > target (just look at the output of crossdev --help).
Somehow, I'm not surprised at all ... ;-o > If you want to build x86-code on a machine using a x86-compiler > why would you want to use a cross-compilation-environment anyway? For isolated builds ? Eg. building for different ABIs, etc ? Or to find stupid things like AC_TRY_RUN() more easily ? > The idea of using cross-compilation is to build stuff for another > target than the target of the host-compiler... E.g. build arm-code > on a x86-machine or compile stuff for ppc on a x86-64-machine. A target's binary/runtime environment is defined by way more parameters than just CPU's instruction set. BTW: I'm often building binpkgs for certain foreign x86 systems (small or special purpose devices, ancient distros, etc, etc) by - guess what - crosscompiling. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [email protected] mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
