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Re: Cross compiling


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Christer Solskogen
<christer.solskogen@gmail.com> wrote:
> When creating a cross binutils, binutils searches for ${TARGET}-ld (and
> friends) during configure. What is the purpose of this?

it's because binutils and GCC share the top-level configure script.
GCC wants to find those tools so that it can use them while building
target libraries.  I don't think the binutils actually care.

Ian


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