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

Lee Revell
2005-12-09T21:34:07Z

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 16:25 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> For my x86_64, I gave up on trying to do it through the normal path
> (having a plain debian unstable system), and finally just downloaded
> the gcc toolchain (gcc, binutils, and glibc) and built them as cross
> compilers with the prefix x86_64-linux-
>

I was trying to avoid that, as the gcc-4.0-x86-64 package has an
unfortunate dependency on a 70MB glibc-cross-x86-64 package which I
almost certainly don't really need to compile the kernel.

So I guess this is a bug in the Ubuntu 5.10 gcc, I'll report it as such.

Thanks,

Lee