Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (35 mails)

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen wrote

>> When I call 
>>   make HOSTCC="gcc -m32" scripts ...
>> I get 32bit binaries, but I'm not sure if that's the right way to do 
>> it. Is there any reason why "make scripts" ignores the ARCH parameter?
> 
> Consider the case you're cross compiling to a architecture where your local
> system cannot execute the target binaries. If scripts didn't ignore ARCH you wouldn't
> be able to compile because scripts needs to run on the cross compile host.

Ok, that makes sense :-)

>> Is there a better fix than the "HOSTCC=.." call?
> 
> I don't know any other way and it doesn't seem to be unclean in any way to me.

Fine! So I will do it that way.

Thanks for your help!
cu,
Frank

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