RE: RFC: Support both Cross and Native compiler from configure

[Tamar Christina <Tamar dot Christina at arm dot com>]

Sending to list as well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tamar Christina
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 12:10
> To: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>; binutils@sourceware.org
> Subject: RE: RFC: Support both Cross and Native compiler from configure
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> > > What I was after is if people would be fine with such a change to
> > > the build system. Since unless I'm mistaken (and correct me if I
> > > am), this would now require when cross compiling both a compiler
> > > where --host=$build and --host=$host, whereas before you'd just
> > > require --host=$build.
> >
> > Yes, if --build and --host differ, you need two compilers. That's
> > already the case now, because you need to build libgcc for the target.
> >
> 
> Yes but that's for GCC, you don't build libgcc as part of binutils, so this
> requirement would be new for people who cross compile. I don't expect this
> to be a problem really, but just checking if anyone has anything against doing
> this before we get started 😊.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tamar
> 
> >    Simon