How well does gcc support cross compile?

[H. J. Lu]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:10:49PM -0400, Jim Wilson wrote:
> > I wish I were wrong. My impression is libraries in the current gcc
> > do not support cross compiling to Linux very well.
> 
> I know that cross compilers can build the kernel and bootstrap a native
> toolchain, and I think that they can build glibc also.  However, you
> don't need libstdc++ or libjava to work for that, so it is possible that
> there are problems I never noticed when I was using cross compilers to
> Itanium linux.
> 

I know the core of the cross compiler is ok. The problems are libraries
used by the compiler. I will see what I can do. I will start with
libstdc++.

H.J.