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Re: Question about CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS when building GCC
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at mips dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:48:35 -0800
- Subject: Re: Question about CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS when building GCC
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com> wrote:
>
> I am building a cross GCC (targeting MIPS) on an x86-64 Linux system but I
> want to build the compiler as a 32 bit executable. I thought the right way
> to do this was to do:
>
> export CFLAGS='-O2 -g -m32'
> export CXXFLAGS-'-O2 -g -m32'
>
> before running configure and make.
>
> This is working in that it created cc1 as a 32 bit executable like I wanted
> it to but when the build continues and builds libgcc, it uses CFLAGS when
> it is using the newly built gcc to compile libgcc. That is wrong because the
> GCC compiler that I just built (targeting MIPS) does not understand the
> -m32 flag and I don't want to override the options used when building the
> libraries anyway, only the options used to build executables.
>
> Am I setting the wrong CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS variables? Or is this a bug?
>
Can you not touch CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS? Instead, you do
# CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" .../configure ....
# make CC="gcc -m32" CXX="g++ -m32" ...
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H.J.