[PATCH] cross-compilation for binutils.

[Gary Thomas]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 16:10 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
>   
>> David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> writes:
>>
>>     
>>>> Something like
>>>>
>>>> | --enable-targets=%_host
>>>>
>>>> should be added everytime to allow e.g. 'strip' to work on both native
>>>> and on target binaries.  This is required when building cross-rpms which
>>>> are providing target and native binaries.
>>>>         
>>> Is it really? You already have to use the appropriate compiler and
>>> linker for native vs. target binaries -- why can't you use the
>>> appropriate version of 'strip', too?
>>>       
>> rpm magic; final %__spec_install_post makes something like
>>
>> + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
>> + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive arm-iwmmxt-linux-gnueabi-strip
>> + /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note arm-iwmmxt-linux-gnueabi-strip arm-iwmmxt-linux-gnueabi-objdump
>> +
>>
>> and does not differ between target and native binaries.
>>     
>
> Hm, OK. I suppose it doesn't hurt much. Updated patch then...
>   
  <...snip...>

Has this work/discussion progressed at all?  I'm interested in cross 
tools (x86->ppc) and would
like to get involved in making these happen.

Any pointers on how I can get started (where/how to pick up the current 
work, etc)?

Thanks

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