Re: canadian build

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at free dot fr>]

Thomas, Tobias, All

On Thursday 08 March 2012 10:47:26 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Le Wed, 7 Mar 2012 20:01:04 +0100 (CET),
> "Tobias Arp" <tobiasarp@web.de> a Ãcrit :
> 
> > Build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > Host=i586-pc-linux-gnu
> > Target=arm
> 
> Just curious: do you really need to use the canadian mechanism to build
> such a toolchain? If it's just a matter of having i586 binaries instead
> of i686 binaries, isn't it simpler to just pass -march=i586 to the
> CFLAGS used when building the host utilities, and therefore do a normal
> cross-compiler? Or maybe I'm missing something?

It might probably be a completely different system (eg a different libc
version, or even a different libc, and so on...). A tuple is not really
enough to differentiate any two systems.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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