Re: [PATCH] Allow for Cross compile of user tools

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Jerone Young wrote:
> This is the first of many patches to begin to make kvm source a lot
> better for compiling for other architecture support (that is not x86 or
> x86-64).
>
> This patch makes it possible so that someone on an x86 machine can cross
> compile for an x86-64 machine and vice versa. So now you will have
> config-$(arch).mak for each architecture, with specific architecture
> rules. 
>
> An example of this is for compiling x86-64 on an x86 machine is:
> make KERNELDIR=~/tmp/kvm ARCH=x86_64
>   

This should be done via ./configure (I dislike ?= intensely).

> This allows for someone with an x86 machine to compile for x86_64. Later
> patches that I will be submitting will be for ppc and will make a few
> more changes.
>
> What I would like though is comments on how everyone feels about this
> approach. We are need of something like this to start ading ppc related
> code.
>
>   

No problem for user/.  I'd like to see this accepted by qemu-devel as well.

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