This is the mail archive of the
gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: help building gcc 3.2
- From: "Joshua Nye" <josh at boxcarmedia dot com>
- To: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "Ralph Blach" <rcblach at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 09:06:40 -0400
- Subject: Re: help building gcc 3.2
- References: <OF1D2CAA2B.F24FB7E5-ON87256C4D.0046DD03@boulder.ibm.com>
> How ever when I went to build my cross compiler, xgcc insisted on the
> following files
> crti.o and libc.a
> to build the cross compiler.
You need to build glibc or another C library for the target platform.
> Whey would a compiler need these files or care about them. After all, you
> might need the compiler to build theses files. How do I specify the
> configure options so that these files are not needed. If they are needed,
> could somebody explain why they are needed.
>
I've had some troubles with 3.2 in this regard. I think I ended up using GCC
2.95.x to build a glibc for my target and then built a GCC 3.2
cross-compiler.
--josh