[Clfs-support] Why cross-compiling?

[Antonio Bulgheroni]

Good point, but then I don't understand why you want to install *CROSS*
Linux from scratch. Can't you do simply Linux From Scratch?

cheers,

toto

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Antonio Bulgheroni, PhD
http://unico-lab.blogspot.com

“There are 10 kinds of people.  Those that understand binary and those that
don’t.”


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:52 AM, booleandomain <booleandomain at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm a CLFS newbie. I don't understand why cross-compiling tools such as
> binutils and gcc. Let me explain. My CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo. The host
> system is Gentoo Linux running on that CPU. uname -m returns x86_64. I want
> my target Linux system to run on the same computer as the host system, so
> the target should return x86_64 too. So why putting x86_64-cross-linux-gnu
> for --build and --host and x86_64-pc-linux-gnu for --target? It should be
> build=host=target=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (native mode).
>
> Thanks.
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