Re: i386 -> x86_64 cross compile failure (binutils bug?)

Ken Moffat
2005-12-09T22:19:28Z

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On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

>
> It seems like CROSS_COMPILE= should not be needed if my standard gcc
> binary can produce x86-64 code. I was hoping it would be possible to
> build an x86-64 kernel using the Ubuntu packages and that I would not
> have to resort to building my own toolchain. And it seems that it's
> supposed to work, but doesn't.
>
Last time I used it, crosstool was painless, but I guess you'd prefer
this link to x86 cross-compilers that akpm posted the other month:
http://developer.osdl.org/dev/plm/cross_compile/

(I haven't tried the x86_64 version there, but the powerpc64 worked a
treat).

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