Putting cross compilers into Fedora

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Wed Sep 1 11:58:02 UTC 2010


   Hi,

> - A cross compiler alone is not worth it, you need a whole zoo of
> further cross-target packages to make it usable.
> Without massive changes to the infrastructure, this would add a
> significant amount of packages to the distro.

Depends on what you wanna do with it.  For linux kernel cross builds as 
asked for in the mail starting this thread just gcc+binutils will do 
fine.  For cross-compiling userspace bits too you'll indeed need alot 
more stuff ...

cheers,
   Gerd



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