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Re: libiberty & gcc
- To: alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk
- Subject: Re: libiberty & gcc
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 22:15:42 -0600
- cc: Linux-Egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809052340260.200-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>you write:
> > target machine -- the machine we ultimately end up generating code for.
> > host machine -- the machine which actually runs the target compiler
> > build machine -- the machine which builds the target compiler
>
> Ah, now that's clarified things somewhat. Imagine building the egcs on
> your lowly little i486 to run on a DECstation generating code for your
> little i486 for these big glibc2 jobs! :o) I'm now beginning to understand
> how one can build a compiler binary for an unsupported platform.
Exactly. One of my personal favorites was build = sunos, host = dos,
target = hppa.
jeff