Re: crosscompiler for ia64

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Thanks Brian. I'll try to do it. Is neccesary to recompile binutils
with hpux target? I read somewhere that,but i don't know if it's
neccesary

> The problem that you're running into is that gcc is just the compiler,
> it is not the C library.  If you try to build a cross compiler without a
> libc (i.e. just using what comes with gcc) you will get something that
> is not very useful as it can't link any programs -- which also means it
> won't be able to build libgcc or libstdc++ or any of the other required
> support libraries, let alone a "hello world" C program.  This is
> probably not what you want.
>
> One way to supply these items is with a sysroot.  Take the relevant
> items from the target system (e.g. /usr/include and /usr/lib or
> whereever they are located) and reproduce them in the same tree
> structure in some subdirectory on the cross host.  Then supply the top
> of that location as --with-sysroot=/foo/bar when configuring the cross
> compiler.  If you don't have an appropriate target system to get a copy
> of these files from then you're in a bit of a pickle.  If the target is
> open source you can use a more complicated process to bootstrap them
> from source, but when you're targeting a proprietary target like HP-UX
> there's really no choice but to copy them from the target system.
>
> Brian
>

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