On 6/4/19 2:07 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Yes, it does. I did try back when I first added the cross compiler
> support, but for some reason did not manage to make use of the built-in
> cross compilers. Maybe the versions in that Ubuntu version were just too
> old? I really don't remember.

Those compilers all come from Debian, so it might be a better idea to use
a Debian container anyway. The maintainer of those compilers maintains them
in Debian, they just get imported into Ubuntu at some point.

> I'll be more than happy to see you make them work though :).

I'll give it a try. Native builds are 100% fine in any case.

>> The cross-compilers from kernel.org are bare-bone and can't be used to build
>> anything but the kernel and a few other utilities due to missing std 
>> libraries.
> 
> 
> They seem to work surprisingly well for grub, given that we're even
> doing execution tests against a few of the resulting binaries ;).

Interesting.

Adrian

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