Re: cross-compiling

[Dave Gilbert <gilbertd treblig org>]

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Joe Reiter wrote:

> Well, we have a number of very fast machines in the office, ranging from
> K6-2-300's to quad-ppro200's to p2-450's.  Unfortunately my little Multia is
> the only Alpha.  So, I'm looking for a way to compile my Alpha kernel on one
> of our faster x86 linux machines.
> 
> Does this sound feasible?  Can anyone give me an idea of how much difficulty
> we're looking at?


Theory dictates it SHOULD work; just get the binutils/gcc source and
tell it to compile for an alpha.  A while ago however the wisdom was that
in practice it just didn't work due to bugs somewhere in the
compiler/binutils/kernel source which didn't like cross compiling from 32
to 64 bit targets.


Dave

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