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Re: Cross compiling

From: Christer Solskogen <christer dot solskogen at gmail dot com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:05:36 +0200
Subject: Re: Cross compiling
References: <k37ue2$65q$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAKOQZ8ypV30hEibK_BhAg=T2E0_Xzg6JnuyGU0GTCKNeZhm9rg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Christer Solskogen
> <christer.solskogen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> When creating a cross binutils, binutils searches for ${TARGET}-ld (and
>> friends) during configure. What is the purpose of this?
>
> it's because binutils and GCC share the top-level configure script.
> GCC wants to find those tools so that it can use them while building
> target libraries.  I don't think the binutils actually care.
>

Ah, makes sense. Thanks!


-- 
chs,

References:
- Cross compiling
  - From: Christer Solskogen
- Re: Cross compiling
  - From: Ian Lance Taylor

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