Re: Is hurd buildable/runnable with gcc 3.2 cross compiler?

[Burton Samograd]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:12:29AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> 
> You are better off with the gnumach-1-branch for now.  Development on that
> is closed, but development on the HEAD has not really been persued either in
> the last months.
> 

Ok, thanks for the tip.  I got it last night and except for having to comment
out a portion of the makefile to regenerate configure with autoconf, it worked
smoothly and the new kernel booted just fine.  This was building under hurd and
not linux, so I was happy about that :)

> 
> But you don't need a cross compiler at all for gnumach, if you have gcc for
> any i386 target.
> 

So, just to make sure I've got this right, I can build all of gnumach and hurd
under my linux system (gentoo using gcc 3.2) and then install to my hurd
partition without any problems?  I was under the assumption that all the cross
compiler talk was due to different binary object formats, but after a bit of
thought I came to the realization that gnumach/hurd simply uses elf files so
there shouldn't be any difference as long as the build files are setup right.
Am I wrong thinking this?

burton

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