On 1 November 2016 at 19:21, Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> wrote: > On 11/01/2016 12:17 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 1 November 2016 at 17:51, Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> wrote: >>> >>> The usual pain point for me is building for 32-bit on a 64-bit >>> system, where there is no cross-prefix that one can use, and >>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH and --extra-cflags are the only changes. >> >> >> That sounds like a bug in how the 32-bit compilers work on >> x86 ;-) Ideally you should be able to get a 32-bit compile >> with i586-linux-gnu-gcc...
> gcc -m32 worked very well for years, before pkg-config > came along and mucked things up by using package-local > include and library directories. As long as everything > was installed in the toolchain-aware search paths, everything > Just Worked. -m32 doesn't extend to anything other than the 32-bit/64-bit special case, though, and pkg-config does more than just tell you include paths. thanks -- PMM
