From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PaDBX-000194-ST for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:08:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCBF6E06FE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.125]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A11E0665 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 19:40:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=UQuFHoD2CPQ248x8AXEbKhr4z9AaDqApxmEl3BhfZ64= c=1 sm=0 a=MX0U762NRUQA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=ycB087cP/TvZCXFoqgOVhQ==:17 a=9UggZ_IUpKnfIUoJgPIA:9 a=zhk0sm0JZgdy-AT9-FwA:7 a=f5L0Jq8oU8CKBoEWcLI856aGLLQA:4 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=ycB087cP/TvZCXFoqgOVhQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 71.40.157.251 Received: from [71.40.157.251] ([71.40.157.251:53975] helo=[192.168.2.37]) by hrndva-oedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id C3/8C-00963-2C7732D4; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:40:50 +0000 Message-ID: <4D23794A.4090804@tampabay.rr.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:47:22 -0500 From: wireless User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] CBUILD= HOSTCC=-gcc References: <20110102185943.6382.qmail@stuge.se> <201101021431.59009.vapier@gentoo.org> <4D21BE5F.5080104@gmail.com> <4D223B90.2010604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D223B90.2010604@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: afdea61a-63e6-4ec7-976b-fdaa34844011 X-Archives-Hash: 5942f245d66def11301af33a5ca18bfc On 01/03/11 16:11, Christoph Spielmann wrote: > Well in terms of crossdev i686-gentoo-linux-gnu-gcc is not a valid > target (just look at the output of crossdev --help). If you want to > build x86-code on a machine using a x86-compiler why would you want to > use a cross-compilation-environment anyway? The idea of using > cross-compilation is to build stuff for another target than the target > of the host-compiler... E.g. build arm-code on a x86-machine or compile > stuff for ppc on a x86-64-machine. OK I agree with this answer, mostly. I have a situation where a x86 (P4) Machine is built on i686 for everything. However, I'm also going to chroot the machine and build binaries for all sorts of i486/586 and old oddball processors such as the Geode. So isn't that a valid exception to what you have opined about? curious, James