Help with Gcc-3.0.3 cross-compile

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 12, 2002, Jim Wilson <wilson@redhat.com> wrote:

>> 5-Built glibc-2.2.5 for cross compile --target=ia64-pc-linux-gnu and
>> prefix=/home/cross-ia64

> You can't compile a cross glibc if you don't have a cross compiler yet,
> so you couldn't have done this at this point.

Also, for glibc, it's not --target, it's --host that you want to
specify, since the glibc you want to build is something that will
*run* (i.e., be hosted on) ia64-pc-linux-gnu, not something that
should generate code for ia64-pc-linux-gnu.  --target is pointless for
glibc.

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