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Re: Cross compiling
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Christer Solskogen <christer dot solskogen at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:22:46 -0700
- Subject: Re: Cross compiling
- References: <k37ue2$65q$1@ger.gmane.org>
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