On 3 February 2016 at 15:07, Mark T <mtl1nux...@gmail.com> wrote: > I notice there is a meta/recipes-devtools - I assume this pulls in from > build/downloads - so gcc-5.2.0.tar.bz2 for example. Does the tool-chain > comprised of these recipes get built by /usr/bin/gcc before being used to > compile Yocto ? >
The host's gcc (typically /usr/bin/gcc) is used to build gcc-cross, which is then used to compile everything that needs to be cross-compiled. We don't build our own native compiler to replace the host compiler. Ross
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