On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:33:30PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Gunther Nikl wrote: > > > >If the above isn't restricted to canadian cross, it looks good. This > >should apply for a normal cross build as well: (build == host) != target > > > Yes. My distinction between native and cross, was more referring to > whether build == host or not.
I thought its better to ask than to be surprised later. > >Why dou you need a backwards compatibility patch for 4.0/4.1? > > > To provide a One True Way To Specify Build Tools, and make the same > scripts usable on every release branch. And because the patch that > caused the breakage for your configuration was backported to 4.1. Indeed, thats a very good reason. I am only tracking mainline and thus I missed that this change was already backported. Thanks for quickly offering a solution. Gunther
