Re: Re: [J-core] musl-cross-make / litecross improvements

[Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>]

* Laurent Bercot <ska-dietlibc@skarnet.org> [2016-05-04 13:27:22 +0200]:
> On 04/05/2016 13:10, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> >>Still no native toolchains. :)
> >>
> >
> >for native you need a musl based host
> >at which point you can use a musl based
> >distro that provides native toolchains.
> 
>  Huh? And what if you *are* the musl-based distro and need to build said
> native toolchain?
>  I'm surprised to hear you, of all people, mentioning "relying on your distro"
> as a solution. :P
> 
>  I've had success, with the previous iteration of musl-cross-make,
> building native toolchains via disabling --host in COMMON_CONFIG
> (and compiling gmp, mpfr and mpc for the target first). In other words,
> host=target (even if build!=host). They're still considered cross-toolchains,
> as in the binaries are prefixed with ${ARCH}- , but they work. I'm not sure
> whether it's still possible with the current version of mcm.

yes, that works, you can cross build a toolchain with host==target
and then it will be a native toolchain.

(i havent tried it with mcm, but first you build a cross toolchain
and then you should be able to use that to build the native one.)

what i meant was that you can only use that toolchain in a native
musl environment and for most users that's a distro with its own
toolchain (otherwise you have to build busybox etc yourself).