Why is building a cross compiler "out-of-the-box" always broken?

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Thanks, I git cloned buildall and it sure looks simple (now that you 
> have made it work) :-!

Good to see it is useful to more people than just me :-)

> Although, that combination of options was not exactly obvious at first 
> glance.

Heh.  Almost all of it is just "disable what we don't need".  OTOH,
that's not how I ended up with those options: I added one every time
something broke.

> I'll try it on my build system at work tomorrow and see what bites me 
> next.

What target(s) are you building?

> I expect that I am
> having old nightmares from when I was trying to do this under Solaris 
> and made it harder than
> I needed to on a Linux host.  Apparently, I'm not the only one who got 
> lead astray though.

The manual explicitly says you need to have target headers.  With
all those --disable-XXX and especially --enable-sjlj-exceptions it
all works fine without, though.


Let me know how it goes,


Segher