On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:27:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:40 AM Linus Torvalds > <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > The problem on x86-64 cross-building to i386 is that the *compiler* is > > the same, but the flags are not, and the games the Makefile plays > > aren't sufficient. It plays with changing HOSTCC to CC in order to get > > he right target compiler, but since the difference between i386 and > > x86-64 is not the compiler but the "-m64" in the cflags, it doesn't > > actually do what it intended to do. > > > > We'll get it sorted, I think. > > So right now the build fix is likely to be this: > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/935246/ >
I can confirm that the patch fixes the i386 cross-compile issue. I just sent a Tested-by:. Guenter > but note that it's literally just a build fix, and for a i386 > cross-compile it embeds the wrong binary so it won't actually run > correctly. For this whole "test the concept" stage that's fine. > > Linus
