david.hagood@xxxxxxxxx writes: > I am trying to build a GCC for embedded development. One of my targets is > an X86, as are my development machines. However, I want to treat this as a > cross compile - I do NOT want a change in the host environment's compiler > to impact my targets, so I want to use a completely separate compiler for > my target builds. > > However, GCC's configure script "helpfully" detects that my host and > target are "the same" and decides it's NOT cross-compiling. How can I tell > configure that it is damn well building a cross compiler no matter what it > thinks? I assume that your host and target are both running the same OS, e.g., GNU/Linux. In that case, write something like configure --build=x86_64-build-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-target-linux-gnu In other words, the comparison of host and target is a simple string compare; you can change the vendor field to make them different. Ian
