Re: Cross compiling for VIA C3?

[yoppo@jippii.fi]

>> I compiled the package now on i586 machine and the runit works fine on 
>> VIA. Too bad that I don't allways have this possibility so I still need 
>> to get the cross compiling to work. I compared the choices which was 
>> made during compiling and all of them are the same as on my athlon 
>> machine so they can't be causing the problems.
>> 
>> When I tried the "cross compiled" binaries only the runit-init seems to 
>> fail with illegal instruction other binaries works. Right now I don't 
>> have a clue what to try next...
>
> Maybe that's silly, but have you used gcc made for target arch for
> cross-compiling?
> I don't know how it is on your platform, but on my Linux when I want to
> cross-compile for another arch I need to use <arch>-gcc instead of
> standard gcc made for my arch (of course this <arch>-gcc must be build
> as a cross-compiler, it can't be just a link to gcc).
> So maybe you aren't using the right version of gcc for
> cross-compilation?
>
> -- 
> Greetings
> Rafal Bisingier

I'm no gcc expert so hard to say if it's silly or no, but all the other 
packages I cross compiled works OK so I think that the gcc I'm using 
shouldn't be the one causing this problem. But I can't be sure so I 
think I must try to look into this too just in case...

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