Cross Compile Needed?

[Michael Hohmuth]

Ian Duggan <ian at ianduggan.net> writes:

> I'm working to try to build the fiasco kernel for a pentium machine that
> I have. I'm working from a Debian PIII. Will I need to build a
> cross-compiler to produce code for the pentium machine?

No, you can use your Linux installation's native compiler.

> Working from the fiasco CVS, I can see how to invoke the --host options
> for "configure" of oskit and oskit10. Is there anything similar for
> doing this with the L4 module?

No, the compiler L4 uses is configured in l4/Makeconf.  On Linux/x86
systems, it's just `gcc', on other systems its usually `i386-linux-gcc'.

Michael
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