Re: GCC-4.0.2 on Cygwin

[Jim Tison <jtison at ntplx dot net>]

Brian,

Don't feel bad. You aren't the first to confuse --target & --host. When 
they're equal, you have a normal cross-compiler, which seems to be what 
you want. When unequal, you're building a Canadian Cross.

--Jim--

Brian Dessent wrote:

> Brian Rose wrote:
>
>  
>
> > OK here is where I get all confused. I am building a gcc in order to use
> > that gcc to build m68k-elf programs. So when I am building the gcc, my
> > target *should* be i686-pc-cygwin, correct? Because this gcc that I am
> > building will *run* on my Cygwin PC.
> >    
>
> No, you want --target to be m68k-elf for both gcc and binutils. 
> --target is the machine for which the output of the tool is meant to be
> run.  --host is the machine on which the tool itself will run.  If your
> 'as' is targeted at i686-pc-cygwin then that's not going to work.
>
> Once you've built and installed binutils, you should have a
> 'm68k-elf-as' in the path and the gcc configure should find and use it. 
> You can override this with --with-as I think.
>
> Brian
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