On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 11:44 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * Jason A. Donenfeld: > > > It's also easy, nearly trivial, to download toolchains. Arnd provides a > > bunch with his crosstool. "Must use a toolchain from your distro" is a > > requirement that affects nobody. > > But not everything will be built with the cross-compiler. For the > kernel build tools and other userspace components, you'll need a native > toolchain that can build programs that can actually run on the build > host. ... when using GCC. We don't have this pain when using clang. https://docs.kernel.org/kbuild/llvm.html#llvm-utilities i.e. $ make ARCH=arm LLVM=1 will build with one instance of a clang binary (and ld.lld and llvm-objcopy etc.) for Target AND Host. No need for multiple toolchain binaries. -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
