Re: Cross gcc for MIPS

[rob at rob dot robhome dot sysgo dot de (Robert Kaiser)]

In article <38FC4D63.455E7809@freenet.hut.fi>,
	karuottu@freenet.hut.fi (Kai Ruottu) writes:
> "Frank W. Miller" wrote:
>  My opinion is that configure shouldn't approve target names like
> 'mips',
> 'i386', 'powerpc', 'sparc', 'm68k' etc. without any info about the used
> binary format or operating system.

Agree about the binary format, but what if you don't _have_
an operating system ?

I've (quite happily) used "mips-elf" in the past and I wouldn't like
it if configure insisted on an OS being specified, given that all I want
to do is compile code for an OS-less embedded target (or even my own
OS).


Rob

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Robert Kaiser                       rkaiser AT sysgo DOT de
Sysgo RTS GmbH
Mainz, Germany

 

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