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Re: [MiNT] Native GCC built



On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 11:46 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:

> Now I understand that the multilib design can work in only 2 situations:
> 
> 1) Cross-compilers. It works because each multilib is handled in the 
> same way: the configure script knows we are cross-compiling, and assumes 
> that the executables can't be run on the build machine. So it assumes 
> default results for some tests.
> 
> 2) Native compilers where the build machine can run the code produced by 
> every multilib. This is the case for x64 build systems. The test 
> executables produced by the configure scripts can be run, whenever they 
> are x64 or i386. So the results are accurate.

I'm afraid I don't understand this. But if multilibs works for
cross-compilers, why not build a cross-compiler (68k) for MiNT?

Jo Even