Re: Cross-compilers.

[Enrico Scholz <enrico scholz informatik tu-chemnitz de>]

dwmw2 infradead org (David Woodhouse) writes:

>> * for binutils, at least '--enable-targets=%{_host}' should be added to
>>   make e.g. stripping of binaries possible by setting %_strip to the
>>   cross-strip.
>
> It certainly does no harm to do this -- but when would I want to strip
> _native_ binaries with i386-fedora5-linux-strip?

E.g. when having a package shipping both native and cross binaries. gcc
is an example because you might want to generate a -debuginfo package
with symbols for both the native cross-gcc and the cross libraries.


Enrico