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Re: documentation for cross compiling.

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 03:57:55PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think it is necessary. Bootstrap glibc/gcc for the very first
> > time is always a special case. I don't think you can automate it.
> 
> But I disagree.  Not only that, I disagree in code - I have automated
> it, for MIPS, PowerPC, i386, ARM, and SH.  It prevents vicious cycles

When I said "the very first time", I meant "the very first time". That
is you are doing the first port to a new target. There is nothing
specific for the new target ever existed. You have to fill all the
blanks. How can you automate that?


H.J.
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