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From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem compiling 2.6.12
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:08:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7et2uw2.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506222253.47777.nick@linicks.net> (Nick Warne's message of "22 Jun 2005 23:13:10 +0100")

On 22 Jun 2005, Nick Warne stipulated:
> Is it?  I thought kernel didn't care what Glibc or what kernel headers you had 
> (that is system requirement) - it is automous.  Isn't HOSTCC explicitly just 
> what compiler you have?

HOSTCC is a non-cross-compiler, i.e. for building userspace stuff to run
on the build machine. There are a number of such things built during a
normal kernel build (code generators, the config system, et al) and they
use the C library just like any userspace app does.

-- 
`It's as bizarre an intrusion as, I don't know, the hobbits coming home
 to find that the Shire has been taken over by gangsta rappers.'

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-23 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-22 19:37 Problem compiling 2.6.12 Nick Warne
2005-06-22 21:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-22 21:53   ` Nick Warne
2005-06-23  9:53     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-23 11:08     ` Nix [this message]
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506240856460.10920@eagle.netwrx1.com>
     [not found] ` <42BC1C43.3040505@blueyonder.co.uk>
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506241258500.20958@eagle.netwrx1.com>
     [not found]     ` <42BC9FF1.1010400@blueyonder.co.uk>
     [not found]       ` <5nerb117olj7kahv0k8b1vss382ini6bfr@4ax.com>
2005-06-26  0:39         ` Sid Boyce
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-23 21:26 Sid Boyce
2005-06-22 15:28 George Kasica
2005-06-22 15:59 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-06-22 16:44   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-22 19:15     ` George Kasica
2005-06-22 19:26     ` Jesper Juhl
2005-06-22 19:14   ` George Kasica
2005-06-22 19:45     ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-06-22 16:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-06-22 19:22   ` George Kasica
2005-06-22 21:33     ` Adrian Bunk

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