crosstool - x86_64 as i686->i686 or x86_64->i686

[Dan Kegel]

On 1/9/06, Keith Kyzivat <kkyzivat@physiometrix.com> wrote:
> I've got a sucessful canadian cross that is x86_64 built, i686 hosted
> and i686 targetted, but ran into some ranlib problems that I fixed.
> ...
> Steps from Dan's Canadian Cross description
> (http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.38/doc/crosstool-howto.html#canadian)
>
> 1/2. BUILD=x86_64 HOST=x86_64 TARGET=i686  (destination HOST and TARGET
> are the same - no need for separate steps 1 and 2 as they are the same)
> 3. BUILD=x86_64 HOST/GCC_HOST=i686  TARGET=i686
>
>
> Step 1/2 worked fine.
> After setting up the requsite GCC_HOST, AR, and CC vars and exporting
> them, and starting the build,
> I came by an error...
> The obvious thing to choose was to set RANLIB the same way I set AR and
> CC, with the ranlib generated from step 1.
> investigating crosstool.sh seemed to support that argument, and off I
> sent crosstool.
>
> Now it's done, and voila! I've got a canadian cross x86_64 built  i686
> -> i686 cross-compiler.
>
> Now, here's the question: why is RANLIB not detected properly?  Why
> wasn't this caught before by Dan when he put in the bit of info on
> canadian cross builds?

Who knows!  Sounds like an obvious thing to add, though.
Thanks!
- Dan
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