Building a cross compiler, and unsure about the use of --without-headers

[David Paterson]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> David Paterson <dnpaterson@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Based on various examples of building cross systems around the net, I
>> have a procedure where the compiler gets built twice, once as a basic
>> version to allow building of Newlib, and then again as the full cross
>> compiler version.  Looking at the esamples, the first, basic, build
>> always seems to use --without-headers (and --with-newlib).  For the
>> second build however, some sites have both of these again, while
>> others have only --with-newlib, so I'm not sure whether I should
>> include this option in my second stage build or not...
>>
>> A search turns up a few references to this option, but none of them
>> say much beyond something along the lines of "leaving it out will
>> disable some features".  Does anybody have any thoughts on the wisdom
>> or otherwise of using this option?
>
> --without-headers is the default, so it doesn't really matter whether
> you specify it or not.
>
> Ian

Ah, I didn't think to check the defaults...  Thanks for the quick
response Ian :-)

David