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Re: Testing patches for 'foreign' targets
- To: martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, pthomas at suse dot de
- Subject: Re: Testing patches for 'foreign' targets
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:35:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
>
> > Question now is, how to test if the changes still compile without
> > having to build a full cross compiler, i.e. without having libraries
> > or headers for the target arch available?
>
> You don't have to have target libraries to build a cross compiler; to
> build the stage1 compiler, you only need the host compiler and
> libraries.
>
> Also, you don't have to build the entire thing. Just building xgcc and
> cc1 would be sufficient, since this is where the target options are
> really used.
cpp too?
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