Hi Andrew, > > Well, I more or less inherited a poorly structured toolchain build > > environment for the target architectures i686, mibsel, mipseb, arm and > > powerpc, all for Linux, and I urgently need to do some cleanup work, > > as new versions for these architectures are to be supported in the > > future. And even when using crosstool-ng to do this task, I wanted to > > know which changes in the target tuple do really affect toolchain > > generation and which ones don't, but are to be recommended from the > > conventional point of view. > > Any GNU/Linux cross-compiler that you use must be built against the system that it is targeting. This is not just because of the ABI, but because it is built against the target's headers and > libraries. You cannot use a cross-compiler built for one system to build for another. That's evident and is one of the reasons why I need to streamline things to ease the task of shepherding the different toolchains. Anyhow, I'm quite fine now, thanks for all the help. Cheers, Chris
