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Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>,Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>,Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>,Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>,Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:03:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: GCC 4.1: Buildable on GHz machines only?
- References: <17009.2368.986169.753001@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> <1116322155.13457.86.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com> <7770C019-5E13-4543-ABD9-8054CD628F59@dalecki.de>
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 20:27, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> On 2005-05-17, at 11:29, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 01:59, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> >> No, I just don't build gfortran as a cross. There are many reasons
> >> why this is a bad idea anyway.
> >
> > Such as?
>
> The dependence on external packages which don't cross compile well
> for example.
What external dependencies? gfortran does not require any target libraries
other than the standard C library.
It does require gmp/mpfr on the host, but in most cases the host is native,
and they are dead easy to cross compile anyway.
Paul