Re: i386 -> x86_64 cross compile failure (binutils bug?)

[Ken Moffat <ken@linuxfromscratch.org>]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

> It seems like CROSS_COMPILE= should not be needed if my standard gcc
> binary can produce x86-64 code.  I was hoping it would be possible to
> build an x86-64 kernel using the Ubuntu packages and that I would not
> have to resort to building my own toolchain.  And it seems that it's
> supposed to work, but doesn't.
 Last time I used it, crosstool was painless, but I guess you'd prefer 
this link to x86 cross-compilers that akpm posted the other month: 
http://developer.osdl.org/dev/plm/cross_compile/

(I haven't tried the x86_64 version there, but the powerpc64 worked a 
treat).

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