Re: another proposed crosstool project

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>]

On Sun, 6 May 2007, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:07 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 May 2007, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 05:12 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > > 1) is there any *theoretical* reason why the generated headers from
> > > > the latest kernel source tree shouldn't work for *all* builds?  yes or
> > > > no?  if not, why not?
> > >
> > > The obvious reason: many cross builds are not targeting linux!
> >
> > ok, i should have been more precise -- for those builds that *require*
> > a set of kernel headers, the newly-generated ones via "make
> > headers_install" should be universally sufficient.
>
> This isn't precise. ALL builds require a set of system headers, because
> critical things like libstdc++ will not build unless system headers are
> provided.
>
> My point is that the system headers you need to install are inherently
> dependent on the target OS.

oh, wait, do you mean just that i would have to run:

  $ make ARCH=whatever headers_install

to match the target architecture?  sorry, i had that in my earlier
posts but forgot to put it in here.

rday
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