On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Since the C programming language is built upon a virtual machine > concept, and the sources for the tools are all written in C, AFAIK, > then what is the problem. Any machine which supports the necessary > constructs should be able to emit the code necessary. One should be > able to build for the PC using a MAC, ISTM.
True, and I believe you can even build (for example) AIX powerpc binaries from a Linux x86 host if you really want to take the effort. But even with the less extreme cross-compiling used by CLFS, it's still quite a bit more work than a 'simple' native LFS build. > What is the issue? Does the GCC have special "hooks" into the > kernel or sth like that? GCC doesn't - but glibc does. Not my area of expertise, but I assume a 2.4 kernel simply doesn't provide the necessary syscall interfaces to build a modern glibc. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
